As Silence stares at the door,367Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNKbb47j6K6
another memory echoes in the long hallway. Before they can annotate it, they367Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOL7gS6eHiw
are distracted by the dolls that stand alongside the walls. There are nine367Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNBPbcYyenW
dolls, impressive in size and moulded in milk.
The dolls are red of hair that falls down gaunt necks, and on their hands,367Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqHtHgf1Kp6
Silence sees elongated fingers. Silence does not yearn to see the finger where367Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFOvWalmLS1
the ring sits. They do not wish to comprehend the dolls further, and so Silence367Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNv7o1STaxv
turns away.
In the recollection, Silence is perhaps a child of seven. They stand before367Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU6PygwpXHZ
a door, too slight to reach the white doorbell with the black button. There are367Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn1w2zA0Vad
two other people with Silence. The boy has black hair, and it is messy; he took367Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgXWeAPvpc9
a nap in the car that had not seemed very restful to Silence. The boy has 367Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUUGp3S6Zf0
green eyes that glittered with something that Silence would soon learn367Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn8YwxbX0KN
to hate.
The other is an old man. Silence decided he was old when they first met him367Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsNKeWWErXz
because the man has to walk with a stick. And he was very slow. The man has one367Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZhY9crYh4a
hand on the suitcase with faded butterfly stickers and the other stretching out367Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdq99nUzh4z
for the bell that Silence is too slight to reach.
Nothing happens inside the redbrick house for a moment, and then the door is367Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEZNyBnD1Zl
pulled open. Silence and the boy stare at the woman with milk-like skin, red367Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlaWMn0pOAm
hair and gaunt fingers. They take in the gold ring and large diamond.
Silence cannot recall if the woman spoke to the boy, but it seems that when367Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWlw4xtP1nP
she spoke to Silence, she did not like children of their so-called gender very367Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLxXVfu34Ez
much.
The old man says a few words to the woman and turns, leaving Silence behind367Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7ESpNws3bv
him to be ushered inside by the woman with milk skin.
Apprehension, then foreign to little Silence, fills Silence like367Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjBxACNYSCg
butterflies, and leap around like butterflies do when caught in a net. The367Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2g90vJyDuj
butterflies leap ever frantically as sharp vocal urgings, push Silence into a367Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8BDRe3nV7N
room with a mirror with gold trim and two nightstands of mahogany, and a bed367Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8E8UAkN3x5
with a soft green blanket.
There were no toys. It does not seem to be a room for children.
Silence allows time to roll forward just slightly. To a place in the367Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVz1dOQjFX7
recollection where they felt hungry. There was someone else in the house with367Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzNEiaNO5qc
the old woman; another person bigger than Silence. She was milk of skin, but with blonde hair that367Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz5SzDlrwW6
bounced about in curly springs.
Before the old man had left Silence behind, he had given both the boy and367Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjUrq6Xuicx
Silence a snack of popcorn and orange slice, to eat in the car. The boy did not367Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQIr8so7GPY
like oranges and had thrown the four pieces of orange from the window. Silence367Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRuc8AxXFtm
did not throw their orange pieces out of367Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4DSZpkJq3b
the window, and the old man told Silence 367Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMrXhs9rjsg
they were very good and the boy was very bad.
Silence walks into the great room where the old woman and the other woman367Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFcYhFbqVgu
sit in arm chairs and watch the television. The women are watching Shrek.367Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvyZT0tRMVh
Silence knows they are watching Shrek because there is a green man, a donkey367Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfu7qsnPVPk
and a pink dragon.
Silence was not hungry in the car, but now the feel their stomach gurgle.367Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuldlX7Zxoy
They sit on the floor in a space without carpet, and begin to eat.
The woman with the blonde hair that bounced like springs looks over at367Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOWuGXKS1Y8
Silence, she sees the food, becomes very angry and starts to yell.
The old woman also starts to yell. It all seems very peculiar to Silence. The367Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv0L35mnZZA
woman with red hair is on her feet now and stands over Silence, before reaching367Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGJSgKF7jiB
down to snatch at the snack.
Silence blinks four times as they watch the old woman lumber toward the bin367Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyLMxq50e5b
and throw away the food. The one older than Silence, snaps that good children367Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsl6gEvM9nz
should always ask for things, and that their mum, who, must be the old woman,367Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfT2UHdipiz
does not believe that children need to have snacks.
The memory begins to roll away. Silence returns To their367Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ1zBBIQBYL
room where they sit stripped of clothing and pride, and remembers how the old367Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3iHAyv5zSc
man did367Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuJNSd5NuAU
not take anything from Silence, when the boy threw his snack out of the car367Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ90XWMGYKEM
window. The old man had told Silence they were very good. Then, the think about367Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2IfHAnspQ0
how the old woman snatched away the orange slices, and threw them in the bin.367Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ71J5zGCpgR
Silence realises that really, they must be very bad.
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