Indole
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. About 120,000 of them end to end would span the width of a human hair.
Rap sheet
- Answers to
- Indole. Aliases: benzopyrrole, ketole.
- Height
- 0.66 nm, standing on end.
- Weight
- 0.19 zeptograms
- Build
- Flat: a six-ring fused to a five-ring holding one nitrogen. Side on, it vanishes.
- Smell
- Jasmine, very faintly. Up close: feces.
- Habits
- Gut bacteria make it out of tryptophan.
- Associates
- Stinky tofu, whose main smell it is.
- Relatives
- Tryptophan and serotonin are built around it.
- Name
- Indigo plus oleum: it was first wrung out of indigo dye.
- Last seen
- A 5 mL tube marked JASMINE in the fridge at HQ.
of them in one jasmine flower, very roughly.
Flowers vary. You’ve never seen one.
The poster on the street
This is the photocopied wanted poster for Indole, No. 52. They were made for noticeboards around Boston, Cambridge and the rest of the east coast.
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