The small girl runs as hard and as fast as she can away from the big black beast, her terror of the stranger obvious as she flees. For a moment, she thinks she will get away, but she can hear the thud of paws on earth and she knows. She knows she is in trouble, that she had done something horribly wrong.

Within moments, he is before her, and those sickly green eyes widen in horror as she tries once more to stop her fast moving body. One paw catches in the grass, causing her to trip and roll back end first at Tobias. As his head lowers and he makes that awful, frightening rasping noise, she puts out her back paws. Her feet hit his nose and she puts as much pressure behind her kick-off as hard as she can. Instincts fire off to have her push off his teeth just before they snapped shut at her, only moving her just out of the danger zone, but not out of the woods so to speak. Rolling, the terrified Satanican baby moves as fast as she can, ignoring the pain in her bad paw in leu of getting away.

The male bows in play as she looks back, running as fast as her stubby legs can take her. Massive black paws come down on either side of her, and this makes a loud baying yelp to escape from her lungs. His playful manner goes unheeded as she tries to flee. A paw swipes at the eart, razing the dirt as he tries to make her run, the idea obviously working. Somehow, between trying to get away and trying to avoid being hit with one of those massive trunks this wolf calls feet, Melisandre looses her footing. Another tumble, and the girl knows she is lost.

As she falls, Tobias halts his motions suddenly, though this does not halt the preparation for death. She waits for his jaws to wrap around her and shake the life from her, and at first contact, she yelps. His manner was gentle now, confusing the little one as he takes her scruff in his mouth. As Tobias proceeds to carry her, Meli finds she misses her mother, but she dared not protest this frightening male's actions. Looks like she would just have to see where this got her. So far, life was rough. Her paw throbbed and bled, she was tired and hungry now, and all she wanted to do was cry and eat and sleep. She could not know that her own milk-breath would save her life, or that the new queen's smell would, but she was grateful to be alive.

Even more, she would come to know of her luck one day, and would also know she was one of the few to survive Tobias.

And the only one he took home alive.