when jeb comes across melanie's dying body, he realizes what had happened to her but still leads her to his hideout: a network of caves housing more than thirty people. most of the other humans wanted her to be killed with the exception of jared and jamie, and later on ian o'shea, who develops feelings for wanderer. as days pass and she starts to become a part of the community, many of the community members start to trust her with jobs and eventually gave her a teaching role among the colony. she is also given the name wanda in replacement of the name wanderer. after tending to a cancer patient one night, wanda is attacked by ian's brother, kyle. after managing to save both herself and kyle from drowning, the two are taken into the infirmary. shortly after recovering, wanda stumbles across a slew of mutilated bodies that cause her to hide by herself in terror for three days. during her time in isolation, wanda learns from jeb that the humans are trying to cut souls out of their hosts in attempt to restore the consciousness and life of the humans but so far each attempt has resulted in a dead body.