Sucrose
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. A fingernail grows that far in under a second.
Rap sheet
- Answers to
- Table sugar. Aliases: saccharose, cane sugar, rock candy.
- Height
- 0.93 nm, standing on end.
- Weight
- 0.57 zeptograms
- Build
- A glucose and a fructose, holding hands through one oxygen.
- Taste
- Sweet. Officially: every other sweetener is scored against it.
- Origins
- Maple sap, about 2% sugar. Some 43 gallons boil down to one gallon of syrup.
- Marks
- Turns polarized light to the right. Split it in two and the halves turn it left.
- Last seen
- A 5 mL tube marked MAPLE in the fridge at HQ.
of them in a tablespoon of maple syrup, give or take.
You’ve never seen one.
The poster on the street
This is the photocopied wanted poster for Sucrose, No. 18. They were made for noticeboards around Boston, Cambridge and the rest of the east coast.
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