They went into the kitchen. On a china plate on the kitchen table was a spool of black cotton, and a long silver needle, and, beside them, two large black buttons. She might want something to eat as well. This is all she made: the house, the grounds, and the people in the house. She made it and she waited. The cat dropped the rat between its two front paws. How often does your dinner get to escape? And shush! Say nothing, for the beldam might be listening!
The other mother carried Coraline into the kitchen and put her down very gently upon the countertop. Coraline struggled to wake herself up, conscious only for the moment of having been cuddled and loved, and wanting more of it, then realizing where she was and who she was with. But what kind of game shall it be? A riddle game? A test of knowledge or of skill? Coraline hesitated. Outside, the world had become a formless, swirling mist with no shapes or shadows behind it, while the house itself seemed to have twisted and stretched.
The other mother was waiting for [Coraline], standing on the grass with her arms folded. Her black button eyes were expressionless, but her lips were pressed tightly together in a cold fury. Coraline nodded. It was true: the other mother loved her. But she loved Coraline as a miser loves money, or a dragon loves its gold. A tolerated pet, whose behavior was no longer amusing.
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