Golden Needle

Background
Following his father's advice--"Check carefully into, under, above, below, and behind things"-- Graham went searching through a haystack outside of Serenia's Country Inn. With the help of King Antony, he found a golden needle which had been lost by or, more likely stolen from the town's tailor. When Graham returned the needle, he was given a cloak to warm him on his journey through the mountains.

Behind the scenes
The phrase "Needle in a haystack" connotes something which is very hard to find or locate. While it may be assumed that the saying has been around forever, written records of it only go back about 500 years. In Don Quixote, Cervantes writes about looking "...for a needle in a bottle (bundle) of hay". Thomas More refers to "...a nedle in a meadow", and Melville to a "...needle in a hay-mow." James Fenimore Cooper in the "Pathfinder," finally, has a character complain, "I might make up to pick out a single needle on this deck...but I much doubt if I could pick one out of a haystack." Come to think of it, just finding any specific reference to "...finding a needle in a haystack" is somewhat like finding a needle in a haystack.