Once again, they're not mine!
Leen was busy explaining the properties of her invention to an older kat "so, as you can see from these experiments duralloy is not only an extremely resilient armor but also a superconductor at room temperature due to its unique molecular configuration."
The kat looked impressed in spite of himself "This is an amazing material you've come up with.." he looked expectantly at her.
"Eileen sir, Eileen Sullivan"
"ah, you're the one that got the full ride to 'Kat-Tech almost four years ago?"
Leen flushed and replied "yes sir, I graduate in May with a masters in Aerospace Engineering."
"Ahhh, please don't call me sir, it's Professor Hackle, impressive, well, I must be going."
Leen's eyes widened as she said "Thank you sir, I mean Professor."
Kev' leaned over and asked who the kat was, when she told him he said "Kats Alive! Professor Hackle, he told you duralloy was impressive?"
A grin spread across Leen's face "hey not bad for the first hour huh?"
Kev' smiled "Beginners luck."
Just then Alois called her over to explain something to a curious tom-kat.
Jake had asked an unoccupied yellow tom who introduced himself as Alois "How is it possible for this new armor to be a superconductor at room temperature, when the electron configuration didn't seem to support it?"
Alois sheepishly replied "I really didn't know because I'm not the creator, but if you'll hold on for a sec I can get our resident genius over here to explain."
"sure." said Jake.
The yellow kat turned around and walked to the other side of the increasingly busy booth.
About a minute later a short young she-kat with light brown fur, short red orange hair, two tone ears, and strange dark blue eyes walked up to Jake "Are you Jake?" she asked.
Jake nodded and added "Are you the resident genius?" he saw a bit of red through her pale fur.
She said "Yeah, the guys sometimes call me that, I'm Eileen Sullivan but call me Leen, Alois said you had a question?"
Jake thought to himself wow, I had no idea a girl created duralloy! and repeated his question about electron configuration.
As Leen walked up to the counter she saw a young orange furred tom-kat standing patiently to one side This must be Jake She introduced herself once her suspicions were confirmed and listened to his question about the electron configurations. She explained "That confused me for a while too, but I discovered they don't effect it. Here watch." Leen grabbed a chunk of duralloy from behind herself, connected a current meter to it and turned it on the readout flashed ten volts. "See absolutely no resistance."
"Weird." said Jake, "So what's the composition of duralloy?"
Leen grinned "Sorry, I can't tell you, it's classified right now."
Just then Jake got an idea and voiced it "Leen, would you like to have lunch?" Jake was amazed at his openness and was thankful for dark fur so his blush didn't show.
Leen looked surprised "Ummm, jeez I'm sorry I've gotta stay, yah know someone needs to keep an eye on the guys." As she answered she thought to herself this is the first time anyone has ever asked me something that
Jake grinned "it's alright, gotta make sure they can don't make you look bad?"
"no, I need to make sure they don't do anything dumb."
Jake nodded and wandered off.
Leen stood and watched him go then turned and went to find Alois.
He was just finishing giving an explanation of duralloy's properties to Commander Feral. Alois then reintroduced Leen to the Commander and she further explained the usefulness of duralloy as an armor.