Coraline's eyes widened, but of course there were the ways into the other world that the cat had talked about, weren't there? And the cat had also said that the other mother could have found that world, not made it. She was sure there was much more to it than she knew.
"It turned out not to be very much of a world," she said, slowly. "Only a copy of the house and the garden. I tried to walk away from the house and just came back to the other side of it. But that was later, after I came back to rescue my real parents." She took a breath, remembering where she'd come to. "The other mother was - she looked like my mother, except for her eyes. Her eyes were buttons. Round black ones. And she was too tall and thin and pale, but she didn't seem evil, not then, just weird. She was cooking chicken. She told me to tell my other father that lunch was ready, just as if I'd been there all the time. So, I did."
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Date: 2010-05-22 10:36 am (UTC)"It turned out not to be very much of a world," she said, slowly. "Only a copy of the house and the garden. I tried to walk away from the house and just came back to the other side of it. But that was later, after I came back to rescue my real parents." She took a breath, remembering where she'd come to. "The other mother was - she looked like my mother, except for her eyes. Her eyes were buttons. Round black ones. And she was too tall and thin and pale, but she didn't seem evil, not then, just weird. She was cooking chicken. She told me to tell my other father that lunch was ready, just as if I'd been there all the time. So, I did."