Vitamin B12
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 fingernail grows that far in about a second and a half.
Rap sheet
- Answers to
- Cobalamin, to its friends.
- Height
- 1.9 nm. Nearly as wide as it is tall.
- Weight
- 2.6 zeptograms. Three times any other vitamin.
- Build
- The most complicated of all the vitamins.
- Color
- Deep red. Milk covers for it.
- Marks
- A cobalt atom at its heart, held on all six sides.
- Habits
- Only microbes make it. Cows get theirs from the ones in their stomachs.
- Last seen
- A 5 mL tube marked MILK in the fridge at HQ, away from the window: light knocks its hat off.
of them in a pint of milk, give or take.
You’ve never seen one.
The poster on the street
This is the photocopied wanted poster for Vitamin B12, No. 7. They were made for noticeboards around Boston, Cambridge and the rest of the east coast.
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