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Stepping lightly on the floor once more, the sneaky little defect quietly walked about the halls, struting his spined tail as though he owned the place. He did after all, he was the cat, this his domain, and all in it lived to serve him... He was after all, being brought his food every day.

He purred softly as he walked, and flaped his realatively small wings and hopped up on to an abbandoned desk, or shelf, or heigher perch. The cat really wasn't sure what it was, but people stood over it all day. He recalled this spot specifically for some reason. He waved his tail back and forth, and thenlicked a paw and cleaned his face, scracting his collar as he moved his clawed paw.

Tempest Manticore 00000000000234

He forgot where he got the collar, he just new he had it, in fact he couldn't remember much anyway. He did though, recall that he wanted to see someone, but of course, he could not really remember any names either. He snorted and coughed.

The cat's ears twitched, nearby people were talking. He hoped and glided to the floor as silent as a ghost, his elongated claws did not retract their full length, so this was not exactly an easy feet.

Tempest walked slowly about the room, through an exit and into the next. He heard a voice that he could not remember, a new voice, but old scent... Someone who might have been here, but Tempest never actually saw or meet. The cat sat still and stared at a wall, then turned towards the pair and walked towards them, before brushing beside the woman...

Her scent filled his nostrils and then he purred, Jelena. Didn't she give him his collar? Yes, or no... That didn't matter.

"Time calculation. Starting with raw genetics and the like from what I've got and seeing how long it would take to run the actual test to pinpoint stable structures. Sometime it can take hours and as much as I love my work I don't need to start into a five hour simulation at this point in time."

Then she stiffened lightly as she caught something out the corner of her eye then the purr got her attention...wait, he was out? How did he get out this time. And just greater, James was here. But no use hiding him and she reached down, scratching at the strange cats head. "Tempest...how do you manage that." And she picked him up, setting him in her lap. "James...this is tempest...a rather...non traditional Echo."

Laying still, the cat watched the arm approach and touch his fur. His initail instinct was to strike it with his tail, something about the arm seemed wrong to the cat, or Tempest merely sensed James' hesitation. "Prrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr"

Flicking his tail slightly at the intial touch, Tempest behaved himself. Something within Tempest told him that sooner or later, he might end up biting James.

Turning his head towards Jelena, he purred slightly louder before rolling off her lap, and landing on the floor, on his back. He streched and adjusted himself to a sitting position, before dashing away from the pair and back into the lab, where his 'cell' awaited him, open.

He looked at the dish, noting that the food was not there, and decided to wonder about for a more annoying place to rest. He found an unused chair, and leaped onto it, before dozing off.

((Good night. Fever catching up with me))

"Ah the wonderful world of nanos. Hard to imagine a time without them, then again we were both born into a world where they already existed so I guess it's a plauible thing." Jelena nodded to him and tapped her fingers on the desk. "But don't worry, I won't fight you on it, I'll behave and take the break."

A beep from her computer drew her attention back to it and she looked over the results. Test times were configured and based off the initial time it took her to make the two species she was basing things off of. Six hours on one, seven on the other. Of course that was her manual time, computer simulation tests only placed them at two hours. Gave a good show of how much work would need to be done. "Seems this is one of those start as soon as you get up, or work through the night type things. See?" A point to the different readings on the screen.

Jelena just gave a chuckle. "I like to call it checking my work. And I'm well aware it's not a typical all day or night, but you spend that much time with VR microscope and you'll get really edgy really fast. Not to mention that within these time frames, you have to account for slip up that destroy your entire structures and the like. Believe me, it's quite tiring."

"Well...if you can wait two hours I can give you somewhat of an answer. Hypothetically posed instead of actual result based on work I've already done and thus ran through. No, making Echoes is not an easy task at all." But not even waiting for his answer she decided to throw the computer into a shorter probability test.

Swiveling in her chair she took to the key board, pulling up several more files and telling the machine to pull results from those and mix them with what she had going earlier. Thus she would get that said hypothetical thing in a little bit of time compared to the two or seven hour originals. Yes, little computer did a hell of a lot. "Let's find out some type of answer, shall we?"