Cortisol
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 nanometer is about how far a fingernail grows in a second.
Rap sheet
- Answers to
- “The stress hormone.” Takes it personally.
- Height
- 1.3 nm, standing on end.
- Weight
- 0.60 zeptograms
- Build
- Four rings fused in a row: three sixes and a five.
- Origins
- Two small glands perched on your kidneys. Made from cholesterol.
- Hours
- Up before you are. Rises by half in the 30 minutes after you wake.
- Known for
- Doubling, at least, when strangers make you give a speech and do mental math.
- Last seen
- A 5 mL tube marked SPIT, AM in the freezer at HQ.
of them in a teaspoon of spit first thing in the morning, typically.
Spit varies. You’ve never seen one.
The poster on the street
This is the photocopied wanted poster for Cortisol, No. 56. They were made for noticeboards around Boston, Cambridge and the rest of the east coast.
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