Dragoncrest Cliffs One still on the vine

If you're curious, Coraline's notes on the piano would be E up to F# then down to  D, for Co-ra-line :) 

It delighted Chacal to find a shared interest with her sister. She moved forward to touch her nose gently against her sister's cheel, melodically murmuring "Coraline." Every word had a different rise and fall of intonation. Coraline's was one Chacal found to be simple, but sweet. The first sylable ascended to the next with a major second, which wavered and then fell the interval of a major third. 

She saw Coraline working away on something in the sand so she turned, and began to search for something that might be blue. Typically, she found lighter things like shells liked to get collected in with strands of kelp, so she began to paw through the dried strands of sea grass, turning when she saw Coraline motion toward her. 

The outside of the shell was earthy, like rock as expected, but the inside was beautiful, iridescent, how the sky looked when painted with the northern lights. "Oh, beautiful!" She crooned. It was half a shell, but still a fair size; typically, she'd find it in itty bitty pieces but this was quite a treasure. "You are treasure-hunter, Coraline," She praised. She pulled a strand of dried kelp aside to see something slightly unexpected. 

It looked like a rock, but flat, just slightly curved. The edges were soft, worn down by sea sand, and it wasn't opaque, but almost seethrough. In colour it was dark, but when she nosed it aside, she caught a hint its deep hue. "Is not a shell, but I will show you, secrets it will tell." she said, picking it up and carrying it to the water's edge so she could dunk it in, and then return, with her find now free of sand. 

She gestured, and brought the shard to a piece of driftwood. Carefully, she propped it up against a gnarled root so that it might be held upright and as she pulled away, her shadow pulled back to let the kight pass through and reveal the deep blue shade of the beachglass. "Have found dees before; not rock or shell. Sometimes green, sometimes clear. Dis one be special, as it be blue. Dis one, Coraline, it be for you."