Clue was not the conventionally flirtatious type — so did not respond to "anything caught your eye?" with what other young lovers might say.

Instead, he took the question at face value, and drifted down the impressive rows of books, running his slender fingers over a few of the spines. Shortly, something really did catch his eye. A book called 'Alchemy: A Quest for the Eternal'.

He took it carefully off the shelf, struggling slightly (it was hefty in his skinny arms). He walked over to Narcissus, who was watching from an armchair, and showed him what he'd found.