Menthol
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 100,000 end to end would span the width of a human hair.
Rap sheet
- Answers to
- Menthol. Formerly “peppermint camphor.”
- Height
- 0.82 nm, standing on end.
- Weight
- 0.26 zeptograms
- Build
- Six carbons in a ring, bent into what chemists call a chair.
- Habits
- Trips the cold sensor in your nerves. Nothing actually gets colder.
- Marks
- One of eight look-alikes with the same atoms. Feels the coldest.
- Origins
- Peppermint, a cross between spearmint and watermint.
- Last seen
- A 5 mL tube marked MINT in the fridge at HQ.
of them in an 8 oz cup of peppermint tea, give or take.
You’ve never seen one.
The poster on the street
This is the photocopied wanted poster for Menthol, No. 21. They were made for noticeboards around Boston, Cambridge and the rest of the east coast.
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