Anethole
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. About 80,000 end to end would span the width of a human hair.
Rap sheet
- Answers to
- Anethole. Formerly “anise camphor.”
- Height
- 1.0 nm, standing on end.
- Weight
- 0.25 zeptograms
- Build
- Flat. A ring with a short tail at each end.
- Smell
- Licorice.
- Habits
- Turns ouzo cloudy when you add water. Physicists call it the ouzo effect.
- Associates
- Anise and fennel, two cousins. Also star anise, an evergreen tree, no relation.
- Last seen
- A 5 mL tube marked FENNEL in the fridge at HQ.
of them in a teaspoon of fennel seeds, give or take.
You’ve never seen one.
The poster on the street
This is the photocopied wanted poster for Anethole, No. 71. They were made for noticeboards around Boston, Cambridge and the rest of the east coast.
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