Allicin
File sealed
The detectives are still writing this one up. The poster and the facts are below; the film and the interrogation room open soon.
Booking photographs
The suspect, from its real atomic coordinates. Drag to turn it. Height chart in nanometers, ruled every 0.05 nm. A nanometer is about how far a fingernail grows in a second.
Rap sheet
- Answers to
- Diallyl thiosulfinate. “Garlic,” to most.
- Height
- 0.81 nm, standing on end.
- Weight
- 0.27 zeptograms
- Habits
- Doesn’t exist until you crush the clove. Then appears in seconds.
- Marks
- Sets off the heat-and-pain sensors in your mouth. Baked garlic can’t.
- Weakness
- Unstable. Hot water breaks it down fast.
- Associates
- Its leftovers linger on your breath for hours. Close associates notice first.
- Last seen
- A 5 mL tube marked GARLIC in the freezer at HQ.
of them in one crushed clove of garlic, give or take.
Cloves vary. You’ve never seen one.
The poster on the street
This is the photocopied wanted poster for Allicin, No. 26. They were made for noticeboards around Boston, Cambridge and the rest of the east coast.
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