no one was standing near her as she crouched down in the corner , her eyes darting between the closest clown to me that had just popped out of a box , to the dummy lying on the ground a few feet from her that was dressed up like a clown with guts spilling out of its abdomen , and then to the very real clown in the opposite corner with a funny-looking stuffed dog in one hand and a very bloody knife in the other .