[align=center][div style="max-width: 600px; text-align: justify; font-family: georgia; font-size: 10pt;"][color=black]Unlike Natasha and Izuku, the young female is hesitant to bring the unknown hyena into their camp in spite of his obvious illness. Not out of hatred or prejudice, but out of paranoia. Three months in Snowbound has succeeded in mellowing out the once near-feral wildcat, but she still stubbornly clings to the life lessons which kept her alive during her long stint living in the Wilds. No parents, no friends, no one else but her to get her through the most challenging time of her life. Melantha can think of several different occasions during which she nearly died. Deep puncture wounds where a mother bear's powerful jaws closed around the back of her neck, just narrowly missing anything vital. An old scar on her shoulder where a human hunter's arrow passed clean through her flesh. And then there are situations that did not leave a physical mark, but an emotional one. Interactions that have lest her distrusting of strangers; suspicious of everyone and everything. Altercations that have prevented her from getting a good rest in the form of bone-chilling nightmares. Much like a callous, Melantha has hardened her exterior to prevent others from reaching the delicate person within.
She refrains from voicing her suspicions as she follows her clanmates, instead choosing to supervise the situation in the event that the hyena is pretending and attempts to attack her people. Her tail lashes with discomfort the deeper the group moves within the caverns. "Is there--" Mel grits her teeth, looking mildly uncomfortable with her words. "--anything I can do to help?" Maybe the guy really is on the brink of death. In that case, she thinks that maybe she should be a bit more sympathetic. But no matter how hard she tries, the young huntress cannot see Kodiak as anything other than a potential threat and a waste of resources.
She refrains from voicing her suspicions as she follows her clanmates, instead choosing to supervise the situation in the event that the hyena is pretending and attempts to attack her people. Her tail lashes with discomfort the deeper the group moves within the caverns. "Is there--" Mel grits her teeth, looking mildly uncomfortable with her words. "--anything I can do to help?" Maybe the guy really is on the brink of death. In that case, she thinks that maybe she should be a bit more sympathetic. But no matter how hard she tries, the young huntress cannot see Kodiak as anything other than a potential threat and a waste of resources.