As Silence stares at the door,415Please respect copyright.PENANADCECjmDHOX
another memory echoes in the long hallway. Before they can annotate it, they415Please respect copyright.PENANAj7XMkwomt9
are distracted by the dolls that stand alongside the walls. There are nine415Please respect copyright.PENANAVnIp68kGIa
dolls, impressive in size and moulded in milk.
The dolls are red of hair that falls down gaunt necks, and on their hands,415Please respect copyright.PENANAz0AlPSFlLx
Silence sees elongated fingers. Silence does not yearn to see the finger where415Please respect copyright.PENANAL7D9x2uied
the ring sits. They do not wish to comprehend the dolls further, and so Silence415Please respect copyright.PENANAHx4p1qSsin
turns away.
In the recollection, Silence is perhaps a child of seven. They stand before415Please respect copyright.PENANA8hdBQ9KsTp
a door, too slight to reach the white doorbell with the black button. There are415Please respect copyright.PENANAIpNzykJkbc
two other people with Silence. The boy has black hair, and it is messy; he took415Please respect copyright.PENANAPfcBeUnIyI
a nap in the car that had not seemed very restful to Silence. The boy has 415Please respect copyright.PENANAn7iOrZxPn8
green eyes that glittered with something that Silence would soon learn415Please respect copyright.PENANA4BasDV9nSu
to hate.
The other is an old man. Silence decided he was old when they first met him415Please respect copyright.PENANAxy5G9FFO4m
because the man has to walk with a stick. And he was very slow. The man has one415Please respect copyright.PENANAkYihdUUTzg
hand on the suitcase with faded butterfly stickers and the other stretching out415Please respect copyright.PENANAB5JAOOma9y
for the bell that Silence is too slight to reach.
Nothing happens inside the redbrick house for a moment, and then the door is415Please respect copyright.PENANAhozNVPld3q
pulled open. Silence and the boy stare at the woman with milk-like skin, red415Please respect copyright.PENANAF5ATj4n4RD
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 when415Please respect copyright.PENANAkQZRVqTkKN
she spoke to Silence, she did not like children of their so-called gender very415Please respect copyright.PENANAvr3r2g84L5
much.
The old man says a few words to the woman and turns, leaving Silence behind415Please respect copyright.PENANAmFNyRM64Wd
him to be ushered inside by the woman with milk skin.
Apprehension, then foreign to little Silence, fills Silence like415Please respect copyright.PENANA516FUh6pdf
butterflies, and leap around like butterflies do when caught in a net. The415Please respect copyright.PENANANwgTaOsqdy
butterflies leap ever frantically as sharp vocal urgings, push Silence into a415Please respect copyright.PENANAdVjMFEJCoi
room with a mirror with gold trim and two nightstands of mahogany, and a bed415Please respect copyright.PENANAXOx49GlVQr
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 the415Please respect copyright.PENANADL2yKBRYW6
recollection where they felt hungry. There was someone else in the house with415Please respect copyright.PENANA1Su6k3j2rH
the old woman; another person bigger than Silence. She was milk of skin, but with blonde hair that415Please respect copyright.PENANAQoSHCCilFE
bounced about in curly springs.
Before the old man had left Silence behind, he had given both the boy and415Please respect copyright.PENANAe4SN1j24oL
Silence a snack of popcorn and orange slice, to eat in the car. The boy did not415Please respect copyright.PENANAFhZa8a5ByN
like oranges and had thrown the four pieces of orange from the window. Silence415Please respect copyright.PENANAgfOBroVAjw
did not throw their orange pieces out of415Please respect copyright.PENANA5dH9NC8iW6
the window, and the old man told Silence 415Please respect copyright.PENANAFIcSZesXaO
they were very good and the boy was very bad.
Silence walks into the great room where the old woman and the other woman415Please respect copyright.PENANAYeSPDfHk9s
sit in arm chairs and watch the television. The women are watching Shrek.415Please respect copyright.PENANAe0GwuQEBBj
Silence knows they are watching Shrek because there is a green man, a donkey415Please respect copyright.PENANAIwrCfBLqTe
and a pink dragon.
Silence was not hungry in the car, but now the feel their stomach gurgle.415Please respect copyright.PENANAVv6vagKmyB
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 at415Please respect copyright.PENANApdoDbcANS4
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. The415Please respect copyright.PENANAogfY1Ku8N9
woman with red hair is on her feet now and stands over Silence, before reaching415Please respect copyright.PENANAQggNgSaisr
down to snatch at the snack.
Silence blinks four times as they watch the old woman lumber toward the bin415Please respect copyright.PENANAzwAx3Yo9vU
and throw away the food. The one older than Silence, snaps that good children415Please respect copyright.PENANA8HQbgwtDmz
should always ask for things, and that their mum, who, must be the old woman,415Please respect copyright.PENANATYijNAzw6J
does not believe that children need to have snacks.
The memory begins to roll away. Silence returns To their415Please respect copyright.PENANAOofDoPW2xL
room where they sit stripped of clothing and pride, and remembers how the old415Please respect copyright.PENANA83pqVghMHb
man did415Please respect copyright.PENANANCQn5Gfh8J
not take anything from Silence, when the boy threw his snack out of the car415Please respect copyright.PENANAUs7Fpd3je7
window. The old man had told Silence they were very good. Then, the think about415Please respect copyright.PENANAuGOH87MJnz
how the old woman snatched away the orange slices, and threw them in the bin.415Please respect copyright.PENANAimdDvcp3rm
Silence realises that really, they must be very bad.
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