"Esther... I think Esther did something bad to me." Coraline said quietly. And there was that dark, horrid feeling again. Had she imagined it? Maybe she had, maybe she just didn't like her because she wanted Danny all to herself. But she didn't think that was right, she wanted Danny to be happy and Esther- Esther had hurt her. "She was burning something and I kept asking her about it and she wouldn't say. And when I left her, something heavy fell on me. A branch but it fell on me twice. And she was there."

Coraline didn't know if she was making any sense at all. She couldn't make sense of it, if it was her or if it really was Esther. If what she remembered was true and the implication of what the other girl had done to her. "And then she left me, I think she left me..."

On purpose. To die. Coraline wasn't sure.