Capsaicin
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 0.1 nm. A penny is about eleven million times wider.
Rap sheet
- Answers to
- Capsaicin. About 16 million Scoville units, neat.
- Height
- 1.7 nm, stretched out.
- Weight
- 0.51 zeptograms
- Marks
- Wears the same ring as the vanillin in vanilla.
- Habits
- Trips your heat alarm. Nothing actually gets hotter.
- Associates
- Birds. They feel nothing, eat the peppers and spread the seeds.
- Origins
- Made in the pepper’s white pith, not its seeds.
- Weakness
- Milk, whole or skim.
- Last seen
- A 5 mL tube marked HOT SAUCE in the fridge at HQ.
of them in a teaspoon of hot sauce, give or take.
Sauces vary wildly. You’ve never seen one.
The poster on the street
This is the photocopied wanted poster for Capsaicin, No. 15. They were made for noticeboards around Boston, Cambridge and the rest of the east coast.
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