Trehalose
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. About 80,000 end to end would span the width of a human hair.
Rap sheet
- Answers to
- Trehalose. Aliases: mycose, tremalose.
- Height
- 1.0 nm, standing on end.
- Weight
- 0.57 zeptograms
- Build
- Two glucoses, joined head to head.
- Taste
- Less than half as sweet as table sugar.
- Habits
- Tardigrades keep only a little, but it helps their own proteins see them through drying out.
- Associates
- Insects. It’s their blood sugar and their flight fuel.
- First seen
- In a sugary stuff made by weevils.
- Last seen
- A 5 mL tube marked MUSHROOM in the fridge at HQ.
of them in a cup of sliced button mushrooms, give or take.
Mushrooms vary. You’ve never seen one.
The poster on the street
This is the photocopied wanted poster for Trehalose, No. 59. They were made for noticeboards around Boston, Cambridge and the rest of the east coast.
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