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“Yup,” said her father. “It's bucketing down[4].”

Sometimes she wondered whether they had ever noticed that they had lost two days in the real world, and came to the eventual conclusion that they had not. Then again, there are some people who keep track of every day and every hour, and there are people who don't, and Coraline's parents were solidly in the second camp.

She found herself to be quite worried that something would jump out at her, so she began to whistle. She thought it might make it harder for things to jump out at her if she was whistling.

And, despite herself, 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. In the other mother's button eyes, Coraline knew that she was a possession, nothing more. A tolerated pet, whose behavior was no longer amusing.

Coraline discovered the door a little while after they moved into the house.

We're here. We're ready to love you and play with you and feed you and make your life interesting.”

Half of her wanted to be very rude to it; the other half of her wanted to be polite and deferential. The polite half won.

She stood blinking on the other side of the velvet curtains, in a poorly lit theate

Flee this place while your blood still flows.”

brass front-door key from her tongue.