Gamma-crystallin
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 0.5 nm. Your eye lens is about one and a half million times wider.
Rap sheet
- Answers to
- γD-crystallin, CRYGD.
- Height
- 5.8 nm, standing on end.
- Weight
- 34 zeptograms.
- Build
- Two domains, four Greek keys.
- Lifespan
- Yours. It is never replaced.
- Habits
- Lives in cells that threw out their nuclei.
- Marks
- Its carbon-14 gives away your birth year. Forensics noticed.
- Associates
- Lens proteins like it dated a Greenland shark at 392 ± 120 years.
- Last seen
- At the center of your eye lens, reading this.
of them at the centers of your two eye lenses, made around your birth, give or take.
You’ve never seen one. You see through them.
The poster on the street
This is the photocopied wanted poster for Gamma-crystallin, No. 139 of the exotic forty. They were made for noticeboards around Boston, Cambridge and the rest of the east coast.
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