Melody put on some nice satin undergarments then took a blue velvety skirt off the rack.  It had violet frills around the base of it where it reached down to her ankles and Melody liked the delicate texture of it.  She then grabbed a pretty off white silk blouse and a cotton cardigan with a nice lavender and soft green, almost turquoise, colour scheme to it.  It was when she was trying on a nice warm looking coat that she noticed Sehrab and Col arguing over the new shop owner.  She turned to face him and scowled.<br/>"Not you again!"  She said with a low growl in the back of her throat.  "Look, would you stop stealing what belongs to me..first you take my big sister away from me and now you're getting in the way of my new pet."  She spoke, for the first time her mind developing a sense of purpose to what she wanted rather than her trying to rationalise the changes in her body.  She got in between Kai and Sehrab, her pheremones now at their peak as she spoke to Kai.<br/>"I'm Melody and although I might want to eat you in the future...do you really think that you'd be better off with this monster?"  She said, motioning to Sehrab and glaring up at him.  Melody wasn't afraid anymore...this was more her instinct kicking in with the genetic knowledge that nothing was a threat to her than any real information she had learned from the world.