ow!
he's not really my cat; he's kinda feral  you know, wild? of course, i do feed him every night and sometimes he'll come in my window `n bring me little dead things.
huh?
you stomp too hard and you'll fall in it!
see? supposed to be so deep if you fell to the bottom and looked up, you'd see a sky full of stars in the middle of the day.
surprised she let you move in.
 my gramma. she owns the "pink palace" won't rent to people with kids.
uh.  i'm not supposed to talk about it.
i'm wybie, wybie lovat.
short for wyborne. not my idea, of course. what'd you get saddled with?
caroline what?
hmmm.  it's not real scientific, but i heard an ordinary name, like caroline --
-- can lead people to have ordinary expectations about a person--
what? i didn't hear anything--
grandma!
heh. well, great to meet a michigan water witch.
but i'd wear gloves next time.
`cause that dowsing rod of yours? uh, it's poison oak.
hey jonesy, look what i found in gramma's trunk. look familiar? wybie.
owwwwwwww!
ow. i - i wasn't stalking you. we're hunting banana slugs.
what? he hates to get his feet wet. geez.
oh no; i found it that way. it's older than gramma -- old as this house prob'ly.
dang, check out slugzilla!
huh?
uh huh.  you mind?
you know, i've never been inside the pink palace.
grandma would kill me. thinks it's dangerous or something.
well.  she had a twin sister.
uhhh, i-i don't know.
maybe she just ran away?
look, i gotta go.
huh? ha ha ha. yeah.  um, so you know tha-that old doll i gave you?
um.  my gramma's real mad, says it was her sister's - the one that.  disappeared?
uh, listen, i-i-i'm really not supposed
c-can you  can you unlock it?
huhhhhhh.  so, uh, i really need to get that doll?
you and gramma been talking?
the doll. is my gramma's. spy.
yeah.  uh, i think i heard someone calling me, jonesy.
the cat.  i-i'll just tell gramma that you couldn't find the doll-- ow!
that's .  cause .  you're crazy!
crazy!!
yahhhhh!!!!
i-i'm really sorry i didn't believe you about all this .  evil stuff, coraline.
w-well, gramma showed me this picture, after i called you crazy?
it's her and her sister, before she disappeared.
oh, man. what am i going to tell her?
we. we can??
wasn't my idea.