As Silence stares at the door,421Please respect copyright.PENANAbAMGt2dVgh
another memory echoes in the long hallway. Before they can annotate it, they421Please respect copyright.PENANArB2wmSaqkq
are distracted by the dolls that stand alongside the walls. There are nine421Please respect copyright.PENANA4If6pPsENB
dolls, impressive in size and moulded in milk.
The dolls are red of hair that falls down gaunt necks, and on their hands,421Please respect copyright.PENANAUGY6Q5YMXc
Silence sees elongated fingers. Silence does not yearn to see the finger where421Please respect copyright.PENANAH1A1VHaqP7
the ring sits. They do not wish to comprehend the dolls further, and so Silence421Please respect copyright.PENANAdHfyuJcKBz
turns away.
In the recollection, Silence is perhaps a child of seven. They stand before421Please respect copyright.PENANAdu3S1GiVjl
a door, too slight to reach the white doorbell with the black button. There are421Please respect copyright.PENANAUsbr2n4LAt
two other people with Silence. The boy has black hair, and it is messy; he took421Please respect copyright.PENANAdY0rXso2Xf
a nap in the car that had not seemed very restful to Silence. The boy has 421Please respect copyright.PENANAKqhu3o4xnk
green eyes that glittered with something that Silence would soon learn421Please respect copyright.PENANAJ3CIG47Gu9
to hate.
The other is an old man. Silence decided he was old when they first met him421Please respect copyright.PENANAuZtmmSiHLf
because the man has to walk with a stick. And he was very slow. The man has one421Please respect copyright.PENANAkzfzFnDkuG
hand on the suitcase with faded butterfly stickers and the other stretching out421Please respect copyright.PENANAQcD6kurAyk
for the bell that Silence is too slight to reach.
Nothing happens inside the redbrick house for a moment, and then the door is421Please respect copyright.PENANASXqmnfnP7w
pulled open. Silence and the boy stare at the woman with milk-like skin, red421Please respect copyright.PENANAotoE7PqJtq
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 when421Please respect copyright.PENANAi3L1ycUxZW
she spoke to Silence, she did not like children of their so-called gender very421Please respect copyright.PENANAKfwghksOHR
much.
The old man says a few words to the woman and turns, leaving Silence behind421Please respect copyright.PENANAMJe1miSaXC
him to be ushered inside by the woman with milk skin.
Apprehension, then foreign to little Silence, fills Silence like421Please respect copyright.PENANAKGP7D4qVIE
butterflies, and leap around like butterflies do when caught in a net. The421Please respect copyright.PENANAKo7V4gMDfl
butterflies leap ever frantically as sharp vocal urgings, push Silence into a421Please respect copyright.PENANAiJbiFcjbzR
room with a mirror with gold trim and two nightstands of mahogany, and a bed421Please respect copyright.PENANAyn88WrMwXt
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 the421Please respect copyright.PENANAvXRFkaQIWG
recollection where they felt hungry. There was someone else in the house with421Please respect copyright.PENANAhFlA713sap
the old woman; another person bigger than Silence. She was milk of skin, but with blonde hair that421Please respect copyright.PENANAfb0rzp1PH7
bounced about in curly springs.
Before the old man had left Silence behind, he had given both the boy and421Please respect copyright.PENANA2iDNqI41Pm
Silence a snack of popcorn and orange slice, to eat in the car. The boy did not421Please respect copyright.PENANAbVymBXN27l
like oranges and had thrown the four pieces of orange from the window. Silence421Please respect copyright.PENANArpvnsD3fuJ
did not throw their orange pieces out of421Please respect copyright.PENANASaB5i0eho4
the window, and the old man told Silence 421Please respect copyright.PENANA5w9DZKT7rW
they were very good and the boy was very bad.
Silence walks into the great room where the old woman and the other woman421Please respect copyright.PENANAZz41x299BQ
sit in arm chairs and watch the television. The women are watching Shrek.421Please respect copyright.PENANAIi70lEQ8Mw
Silence knows they are watching Shrek because there is a green man, a donkey421Please respect copyright.PENANAiB5KSxBlAC
and a pink dragon.
Silence was not hungry in the car, but now the feel their stomach gurgle.421Please respect copyright.PENANAPa6T7wrrUq
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 at421Please respect copyright.PENANAbID6HBXwsH
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. The421Please respect copyright.PENANAcV737Osfio
woman with red hair is on her feet now and stands over Silence, before reaching421Please respect copyright.PENANAgHf0BQ08SK
down to snatch at the snack.
Silence blinks four times as they watch the old woman lumber toward the bin421Please respect copyright.PENANAwEWcuMCmMN
and throw away the food. The one older than Silence, snaps that good children421Please respect copyright.PENANA1q066wXxjH
should always ask for things, and that their mum, who, must be the old woman,421Please respect copyright.PENANA7BlQldzEuv
does not believe that children need to have snacks.
The memory begins to roll away. Silence returns To their421Please respect copyright.PENANAPH7vm1v03C
room where they sit stripped of clothing and pride, and remembers how the old421Please respect copyright.PENANAahuxOPlfvm
man did421Please respect copyright.PENANAsNfANIle8G
not take anything from Silence, when the boy threw his snack out of the car421Please respect copyright.PENANAmZhkIglCX6
window. The old man had told Silence they were very good. Then, the think about421Please respect copyright.PENANAHn61BrSmk6
how the old woman snatched away the orange slices, and threw them in the bin.421Please respect copyright.PENANAG9W61Of39e
Silence realises that really, they must be very bad.
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