Well if that wasn't an obvious deflection, if she's ever seen one.

"Well," she says, light and breezy and at complete odds with the hot emotions roiling inside her, "The people downstairs aren't allowed to leave their cages. So even if it's only a little bit, you've got more freedom than us. That's still something."

She drops onto the ground fully, crossing her legs automatically. "I'm Coraline."