Theobromine
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 medium cookie is about seventy-five million times wider.
Rap sheet
- Answers to
- Theobromine: “food of the gods.” Contains no bromine.
- Height
- 0.75 nm, standing on end.
- Weight
- 0.30 zeptograms
- Build
- Flat and bitter. Caffeine, one methyl group short.
- Habits
- Four times as common in dark chocolate as in milk.
- Associates
- Caffeine. Outnumbers it eight to one in a chocolate chip cookie.
- Weakness
- Not the oven. Lasts to about 550 °F, then turns to vapor.
- First seen
- In cacao beans, by a Russian chemist.
- Last seen
- A 5 mL tube marked COOKIE in the fridge at HQ.
of them in one homemade chocolate chip cookie, give or take.
Cookies vary. You’ve never seen one.
The poster on the street
This is the photocopied wanted poster for Theobromine, No. 23. They were made for noticeboards around Boston, Cambridge and the rest of the east coast.
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