Quinine
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 12 oz can is about ninety million times taller.
Rap sheet
- Answers to
- Quinine. By law, it’s named on the label and kept under 83 parts per million.
- Height
- 1.3 nm, depending how it holds itself.
- Weight
- 0.54 zeptograms
- Build
- Two flat rings at one end, a cage at the other.
- Color
- None. Glows blue under ultraviolet.
- Taste
- Very bitter. The official yardstick for bitter.
- Origins
- The bark of the cinchona tree, in the Andes.
- Last seen
- A 5 mL tube marked TONIC in the fridge at HQ.
of them in a 12 oz can of tonic water, give or take.
You’ve never seen one. Under a black light, they glow.
The poster on the street
This is the photocopied wanted poster for Quinine, No. 4. They were made for noticeboards around Boston, Cambridge and the rest of the east coast.
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