Indigo
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 32-inch inseam is about 640 million times longer.
Rap sheet
- Answers to
- Indigo. Indigotin, to chemists.
- Height
- 1.3 nm, standing on end.
- Weight
- 0.44 zeptograms
- Build
- Flat as a board. Side on, it all but disappears.
- Habits
- Won’t dissolve in water. Dyers dip denim in its pale, soluble form; air turns it blue.
- Marks
- Only the lengthwise threads get dyed. That’s why jeans are white inside.
- Known for
- Clinging to the outside of each thread, so it wears off. That’s fading.
- Associates
- A cousin with two bromines: the ancient purple from sea snails.
- Last seen
- A 5 mL tube marked DENIM in the fridge at HQ.
of them in a pair of blue jeans, give or take.
Jeans vary. You’ve never seen one.
The poster on the street
This is the photocopied wanted poster for Indigo, No. 75. They were made for noticeboards around Boston, Cambridge and the rest of the east coast.
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