Your expectations to reveal a certain clue in a short amount of time is not realistic.
B. caught at the office
A phrase is not a sentence and can't stand alone. Caught at the office can't stand alone as a sentence; it is a <u>participial</u> phrase because it consists of a participle (<em>caught</em>) and a prepositional phrase (<em>at the office</em>).
The narcissus myth found in the prologue of the alchemist is a metaphor that suggests that a person sometimes needs to be self-focused, worry a little bit more about oneself, follow his/her own path to succeed in life, because this characteristic could connect you more to nature and to the spiritual world.