Caffeine
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 coffee bean is about fifteen million times longer.
Rap sheet
- Answers to
- Caffeine. Aliases: theine, guaranine, mateine.
- Height
- 0.74 nm, standing on end.
- Weight
- 0.32 zeptograms
- Build
- Flat as a pancake. Side on, it nearly vanishes.
- Habits
- Jams your brain’s “you’re tired” memo.
- Associates
- Coffee and citrus flowers lace their nectar with it, so bees remember them.
- First seen
- By a young chemist Goethe had handed some coffee beans.
- Last seen
- A 5 mL tube marked COFFEE in the fridge at HQ.
of them in an 8 oz cup of drip coffee, on average.
Cups vary. You’ve never seen one.
The poster on the street
This is the photocopied wanted poster for Caffeine, No. 11. They were made for noticeboards around Boston, Cambridge and the rest of the east coast.
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