Prompt 10: "Reticent" and "Neanderthal"
You'd think that a primitive form of humans as we see them today would not be very close-lipped. You'd think they'd be inane, superficial, total air-heads. Don't deny it.
However, that is how many of the current species are. Just check in your local high school. The bubble-gum gnawing, gossiping, chatty females and males of such a type will spill all, given the proper prompting. Whether what they have to say is of any use or not is for later discernment, but loose-lipped is something I would not expect a Neanderthal to be.
I would think that a Neanderthal would be extremely tight-lipped, guarding all secrets of hunting grounds and other such information as closely as a lion guards its water hole in the middle of a drought.
Neanderthals are more intelligent than they would seem.
A bit like Mello, perhaps.
Past his somewhat unsavory exterior, loud blustering talk, and inability to suppress his emotions and thus gain an objective view of a situation, he has motivation that far exceeds that of Matt's and sometimes mine. His social skills surpass mine by extremes and are superior to Matt's as well.
Mello does not have the technical skill that Matt and I have, but he has a gift for being able to take any situation and turn it to his own advantage.
He is also a secretive little child. Bastard.
Perhaps he is as reticent as the Neanderthals, or it is the unapparent intelligence that makes him like them.
Or perhaps it is his anger that makes him most like the Neanderthals.
"MATT!"
…Let's hope that Matt can outrun a Neanderthal.