Melatonin
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 hormone of darkness.” Doesn’t mind.
- Height
- 1.2 nm, standing up straight. Usually curled up.
- Weight
- 0.39 zeptograms
- Build
- Small and flat. Two rings and a tail.
- Hours
- Nights only. Ordinary room light sends it back in.
- Marks
- Made from serotonin. Two small changes and it’s someone else.
- Associates
- Plants, tart cherries and some very old bacteria make it too.
- Last seen
- A 5 mL tube marked SPIT, NIGHT in the freezer at HQ.
of them in a teaspoon of spit at night, on average.
Depends whose. You’ve never seen one.
The poster on the street
This is the photocopied wanted poster for Melatonin, No. 5. They were made for noticeboards around Boston, Cambridge and the rest of the east coast.
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