The beldam clicked her nails impatiently on the marble counter. Click,click, click click...
She wanted Coraline to suffer for what she had done to her. She looked at the mirror. At her bony, ugly thin body the buttons a reminder of what she had become.
Her metal claws wrapped around one button. She yanked it and yanked it but it wouldn't come off. The beldam got a pair of scissors and snapped the string off. She yelled in pain as if she was loosing a limb. She felt the small remnants of string where her button used to be.
She cut the next button off. Why hadn't she thought of this before? The beldam was now just a nose and a mouth. The beldam needed real eyes. Now.
She fumbled for the metal key and unlocked the mirror where some of the children she lured that hadn't listened to her had been trapped for centuries.
" Alice? Bertha? Julian?" Cried the beldam sweetly in her fake,syrupy voice. She smiled in triumph that Coraline fell for her trick. Coraline hadn't freed all the souls. There were three left and she planned to keep it that way.
"Yes, beldam?" The children said obediently.
"Bertha, you know I love you dearly..."
"Yes, miss. I love you too..."
"Are you willing to do anything for...Me?"
"Yes..." Bertha whispered and then looked at the beldams missing button eyes and realized what she had to do. Bertha tried to escape but the beldam stopped her.
The beldam lunged toward Bertha tackling her to the ground, reaching her slender, metal claws in Bertha's eye sockets and taken her blue eyes out.
Bertha yelled in agony feeling her naked eye sockets. The beldam yelled in triumph and locked the mirror.
After the beldam put in her new eyes she opened the door to the other world. Coraline is such a careless little girl. She left the key in the tunnel! The beldam grabbed it and started to make her way to the other world. Ready to lure Coraline back.
You'll be mine Coraline. My sweet, I loved you. Made this world to YOUR liking. Then you leave and made me feel hatred, Coraline. I will have you now and you will love me.
That night Coraline flipped and flopped in her bed. She sprung up and heard the familiar scuttling sound of the beldam but didn't see anything. So she fell asleep as the beldam plotted her revenge right in Coraline's room.
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