Mogroside V
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 monk fruit is about sixteen million times wider.
Rap sheet
- Answers to
- Mogroside V. Formerly esgoside.
- Height
- 3.4 nm, stretched out.
- Weight
- 2.1 zeptograms
- Build
- A four-ring core with five glucose units hung on it.
- Taste
- 250 to 425 times sweeter than sugar, depending who’s counting.
- Habits
- Unripe, its fruit is bitter. The vine adds sugars till it’s sweet.
- Origins
- Misty mountainsides in southern China. Its fruit is a gourd.
- Weakness
- Not heat. Shrugs off eight hours of boiling.
- Last seen
- A 5 mL tube marked MONK FRUIT in the fridge at HQ.
of them in one dried monk fruit, give or take.
Fruits vary. You’ve never seen one.
The poster on the street
This is the photocopied wanted poster for Mogroside V, No. 73. They were made for noticeboards around Boston, Cambridge and the rest of the east coast.
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