Camphor
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 dime is about two and a half million times thicker.
Rap sheet
- Answers to
- Camphor. The kind in chest rub is factory-made.
- Height
- 0.57 nm, whichever way up.
- Weight
- 0.25 zeptograms
- Build
- A tight little cage, nearly as wide as it is tall.
- Smell
- Sharp and cool. Officially “mothball-like.”
- Habits
- Drop a crumb on water and it scoots around on its own.
- Origins
- The wood of the camphor laurel, an evergreen from East Asia.
- Associates
- Rosemary, a little. Camphorweed, a lot.
- Last seen
- A 5 mL tube marked CHEST RUB in the fridge at HQ.
of them in a 1.76 oz jar of chest rub, give or take.
You’ve never seen one.
The poster on the street
This is the photocopied wanted poster for Camphor, No. 85. They were made for noticeboards around Boston, Cambridge and the rest of the east coast.
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