As Silence stares at the door,305Please respect copyright.PENANA8jYDfg1VDR
another memory echoes in the long hallway. Before they can annotate it, they305Please respect copyright.PENANAYpLKiW3a9D
are distracted by the dolls that stand alongside the walls. There are nine305Please respect copyright.PENANAuVtmeTAmPD
dolls, impressive in size and moulded in milk.
The dolls are red of hair that falls down gaunt necks, and on their hands,305Please respect copyright.PENANAwYKBFe5nA1
Silence sees elongated fingers. Silence does not yearn to see the finger where305Please respect copyright.PENANAzuQ9axpLnd
the ring sits. They do not wish to comprehend the dolls further, and so Silence305Please respect copyright.PENANAHREQyf52XB
turns away.
In the recollection, Silence is perhaps a child of seven. They stand before305Please respect copyright.PENANA6u1WrWjsTk
a door, too slight to reach the white doorbell with the black button. There are305Please respect copyright.PENANAmgIYjHnjxQ
two other people with Silence. The boy has black hair, and it is messy; he took305Please respect copyright.PENANAbhJPlbja5i
a nap in the car that had not seemed very restful to Silence. The boy has 305Please respect copyright.PENANApzKDXZYibV
green eyes that glittered with something that Silence would soon learn305Please respect copyright.PENANAg0l2TTF4Oh
to hate.
The other is an old man. Silence decided he was old when they first met him305Please respect copyright.PENANAPmWHvb0OLz
because the man has to walk with a stick. And he was very slow. The man has one305Please respect copyright.PENANAlLtsuW5J7R
hand on the suitcase with faded butterfly stickers and the other stretching out305Please respect copyright.PENANArlbwhHsXf2
for the bell that Silence is too slight to reach.
Nothing happens inside the redbrick house for a moment, and then the door is305Please respect copyright.PENANAqcMcKgSg0B
pulled open. Silence and the boy stare at the woman with milk-like skin, red305Please respect copyright.PENANAAWz5E6rw8D
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 when305Please respect copyright.PENANAvSFxm7ejnb
she spoke to Silence, she did not like children of their so-called gender very305Please respect copyright.PENANAi3SvKI4Hbn
much.
The old man says a few words to the woman and turns, leaving Silence behind305Please respect copyright.PENANAXqD0ajvbNb
him to be ushered inside by the woman with milk skin.
Apprehension, then foreign to little Silence, fills Silence like305Please respect copyright.PENANAbUu5bqQ9Wv
butterflies, and leap around like butterflies do when caught in a net. The305Please respect copyright.PENANAFQ47u98mso
butterflies leap ever frantically as sharp vocal urgings, push Silence into a305Please respect copyright.PENANAAh1mppk3Mw
room with a mirror with gold trim and two nightstands of mahogany, and a bed305Please respect copyright.PENANAoLOKAuPX7w
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 the305Please respect copyright.PENANAXsuAxOBzeO
recollection where they felt hungry. There was someone else in the house with305Please respect copyright.PENANAzfDQM5St3w
the old woman; another person bigger than Silence. She was milk of skin, but with blonde hair that305Please respect copyright.PENANA1PG2KkqvL4
bounced about in curly springs.
Before the old man had left Silence behind, he had given both the boy and305Please respect copyright.PENANAIew6E7qBsr
Silence a snack of popcorn and orange slice, to eat in the car. The boy did not305Please respect copyright.PENANAO9VLXxJSra
like oranges and had thrown the four pieces of orange from the window. Silence305Please respect copyright.PENANAAS4FyfYSe6
did not throw their orange pieces out of305Please respect copyright.PENANAwGunmFwA7y
the window, and the old man told Silence 305Please respect copyright.PENANA5xmlXr0aMH
they were very good and the boy was very bad.
Silence walks into the great room where the old woman and the other woman305Please respect copyright.PENANAvy4DWmFqpy
sit in arm chairs and watch the television. The women are watching Shrek.305Please respect copyright.PENANA04JYmp4Gpy
Silence knows they are watching Shrek because there is a green man, a donkey305Please respect copyright.PENANAVafSrPPFx5
and a pink dragon.
Silence was not hungry in the car, but now the feel their stomach gurgle.305Please respect copyright.PENANA1pH2tA4Zhb
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 at305Please respect copyright.PENANApoWcoutNID
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. The305Please respect copyright.PENANAybgc5P1lAs
woman with red hair is on her feet now and stands over Silence, before reaching305Please respect copyright.PENANAzH7uGBd3YZ
down to snatch at the snack.
Silence blinks four times as they watch the old woman lumber toward the bin305Please respect copyright.PENANAYRf3bQ5V3c
and throw away the food. The one older than Silence, snaps that good children305Please respect copyright.PENANA7a0V6IhQhr
should always ask for things, and that their mum, who, must be the old woman,305Please respect copyright.PENANA2cIwd6Bb3u
does not believe that children need to have snacks.
The memory begins to roll away. Silence returns To their305Please respect copyright.PENANANPBIS9i9nz
room where they sit stripped of clothing and pride, and remembers how the old305Please respect copyright.PENANAMHpA1YFTyN
man did305Please respect copyright.PENANAi6Ax8xU0o1
not take anything from Silence, when the boy threw his snack out of the car305Please respect copyright.PENANA65UNsDypWi
window. The old man had told Silence they were very good. Then, the think about305Please respect copyright.PENANAtnbBrbFFuF
how the old woman snatched away the orange slices, and threw them in the bin.305Please respect copyright.PENANATLr3XldtkT
Silence realises that really, they must be very bad.
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