She snorts — or sneezes, the motion is all the same, a dramatic tossing of her head downwards like the strength of it is appalling to her, while she squints her eyes up and the pale skin around her nostrils dramatically expands as she exhales, a great big huff of a sound that pleases her for its own sake.
It's not that the scent is bad. Actually, that might be the problem. Sure, it's got a familiar sort of rancid taste to it, a stagnancy that turns it sour and hints to her that it's gone old, an important cue to someone like her who's made to just as easily scavenge her meals as hunt them herself. But that would just be a mote of flavor, a suggestion as to what happened, a directing of her senses. Old meat, perhaps! Something washed up on a beach or floating on the open seas, buoyed up by the waste-gases in its guts. Fragrant, many predators have surely been here already, but there is meat still to be found, or the predators themselves, if she is quick. Maybe even an injured animal, harmed by some prior encounter, still alive and healing but wasting precious resources to do so, a chance that could be in her favor!
It lingers in her sinuses, plastered up against the roof of her mouth, leaking into her scent organs and dripping down the back of her throat. She can feel it in her gills, a tingling sensation, an anticipation. It makes her mouth turn wet, her stomach cavernous, awakening the old enemy, and abruptly her body remembers to complain to her, stirred from the dormancy of lack.
It's irritating. It's also irritating because Miranda has spent enough time around Bellanda to get specific about the conditions of hired arms, and strict about the hygiene of their tools. Scent, a primary sense for her far moreso than sight, sensitive to such things, could easily identify mess and improper care where her eyes regularly failed her, and she just wasn't about to not chew someone else out.
"Yes it is!! You cannot just leave it there for an extended period of time — it will damage your gear!!! And you will give away your own position before you even have a chance! Has no one taught you how to properly care for what you have?" Miranda rears up as much as she can, a precious few inches up from the near horizontal slope of her back. It's just enough leverage for her to paw at his arms and gently tug at what loose bits she can move out of the way, trying to identify where the smell is strongest. "Where is the worst of it? I will fix this, but I have to see how bad it is first!"