“Oh bugger what now, can’t you see I’m busy?!”
You quickly duck down to avoid a piece of important looking mechanism hurtling towards you, thanking your lucky stars for those sharp reflexes. When you were certain it was as safe as things could get you step inside the large metal room that you were told was the garage, probably one of the largest and most cluttered you’ve seen so far.
You begin to wonder if this facility will ever end.
In the center of the room your eyes land on the creature who ‘greeted’ you so hospitably, she was bent over a broken smoking robot her face twisted with exhaustion and confusion as she tossed a few nuts, volts and wires in whichever direction her small paws tossed.
“Oooh I’m sure the book said something about this,” she takes a book (you miss the title, but are almost certain you read the word ‘Dummies’ on the cover) from her tool belt and flicks through a few pages before sighing in defeat and going back to tinkering with the bot, “Goodness I forgot the page..oh wait this looks pretty, I do think this is what the book said to do…hrrr,”
Her feminine overalls are stained with sticky black oil, she took off her hard hat taking a few seconds to retie her hair and brushing it off her eyes before getting up and looking at you with clouded unnatural brown eyes that seemed to leave you wondering whether this feline was really meant to be here.
Her eyes closed for a few seconds and her body relaxes, calico fur laying flat once more. A small smile lights her face as she skips towards you.
Taken back by the drastic change you can only listen and nod politely as she mews;
“Oh so you’re the new subject! That’s so cool, a bit small aren’t you? Oh that doesn’t matter we have a guy for that..maybe..no I do think we do!
I’m Mercury! Mercury the Cat, I’m just kidding my last name’s Leaf. Wouldn’t it be funny if that was my real name though! Oh right, I’ve been here for a couple of weeks now and you might have guessed by now, you look sort of smartish,”
She leans towards you smiling brightly before continuing “I’m the lead engineer my job is..to..oh you did it too, that look in your eyes.” a sigh escapes her furry lips, “It’s alright, I’m used to it.
You don’t think I belong here and maybe your right but I really do have a way with the machines!”
Her ears twitch backwards and a distant look crosses her eyes but almost at once with a flick of her tail she was back to her cheerfull if not rather ditzy self.
“Um well, it was great meeting you but I should really get back to fixing Mr. Smokey over there.” Her ears twitched to the project she’d been working on, out of respect or fear for that heavy looking hammer in her tool belt you decided not to mention that she might as well send it to the scrap yard.
“See you around! Oh and stay away from the meatloaf! And the water cooler on the third floor, I still need to fix that. Toodle tip!”
✿ Nicole ✿
