<div class="floatleft">(http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h242/jenna_sheffield/Elliquiy/MarsColonyHeadshot.png)</div><table class="bbc_table"><tbody><tr><td><strong>Character name:</strong></td><td>Dr. Katelynn Royse</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Location:</strong> </td><td>My Office - Level 3, Engineering Section</td></tr><tr><td><strong>With:</strong> </td><td>Amber Valentine</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Doing:</strong> </td><td>Being surprised</td></tr></tbody></table><br/><hr/><br/>Katelynn nearly jumped out of her skin when the knock came.  Her eyes snapped up find a very well built and very attractive blonde standing in the doorway to her office.  The fatigues....though marking her as Military....were certainly quite flattering and it took the redhead a moment to gather herself.  Feigning recovery from being startled, she smiled, "Oh....Captain Valentine.....um....you gave me a bit of a scare there.  I thought I was all by myself down here!"<br/><br/>She smiled, then waved her visitor in.  "Please....have a seat.  I read over your personnel file before we left Earth....being the ACE and all.....and remember being impressed.  It's not all that often that you find a Soldier with an Engineering Degree outside of the Corps of Engineers...or NASA.  And MIT of all places.  Very nice."<br/><br/>Sure, working with NASA all that time had exposed her to myriad Air Force and other officers with Advanced Degrees (she recalled a particularly gorgeous blonde astrophysicist she'd worked with for a time), though she'd always sort of thought that to be rare.  "So any idea how often I'll be able to make use of your skills?  Although I'm sure Colonel Cotter has first dibs on your time, I have a feeling that we're going to have plenty of work to do in the next several weeks, despite how things are looking currently.  Today's Glitch List is getting longer by the second as more and more things get turned on.  All pretty minor in the grand scheme....but I want to get ahead of this stuff and hopefully prevent the minor stuff from turning into major stuff!"<br/><br/>