Creatine
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 fingernail grows that far in about half a second.
Rap sheet
- Answers to
- Creatine, from the Greek for meat, where it was first found.
- Height
- 0.70 nm, standing on end.
- Weight
- 0.22 zeptograms
- Build
- Three nitrogens round one carbon at one end, an acid at the other.
- Habits
- Keeps a spare charge in your muscles and uses it to recharge them, fast.
- Marks
- 95% of yours is in your muscles.
- Origins
- Your liver and kidneys make about half of it. Meat and fish bring the rest.
- Last seen
- A 5 mL tube marked STEAK in the freezer at HQ.
of them in a 4 oz raw steak, give or take.
You’ve never seen one.
The poster on the street
This is the photocopied wanted poster for Creatine, No. 58. They were made for noticeboards around Boston, Cambridge and the rest of the east coast.
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