As Silence stares at the door,272Please respect copyright.PENANAZpy47O4XMh
another memory echoes in the long hallway. Before they can annotate it, they272Please respect copyright.PENANAZD9ugR1XU3
are distracted by the dolls that stand alongside the walls. There are nine272Please respect copyright.PENANAYpcrU66EDj
dolls, impressive in size and moulded in milk.
The dolls are red of hair that falls down gaunt necks, and on their hands,272Please respect copyright.PENANAnFqIeBFYHT
Silence sees elongated fingers. Silence does not yearn to see the finger where272Please respect copyright.PENANAYXqtUqTO9g
the ring sits. They do not wish to comprehend the dolls further, and so Silence272Please respect copyright.PENANAhdOv4MvZmp
turns away.
In the recollection, Silence is perhaps a child of seven. They stand before272Please respect copyright.PENANAekHaAxSOWu
a door, too slight to reach the white doorbell with the black button. There are272Please respect copyright.PENANAIvzN4A0Wwq
two other people with Silence. The boy has black hair, and it is messy; he took272Please respect copyright.PENANAy78isKLAoa
a nap in the car that had not seemed very restful to Silence. The boy has 272Please respect copyright.PENANAvzuCp8dB4U
green eyes that glittered with something that Silence would soon learn272Please respect copyright.PENANA0LB5xGGQZU
to hate.
The other is an old man. Silence decided he was old when they first met him272Please respect copyright.PENANAYioS2OtsHD
because the man has to walk with a stick. And he was very slow. The man has one272Please respect copyright.PENANAEFI7JJ1lpC
hand on the suitcase with faded butterfly stickers and the other stretching out272Please respect copyright.PENANAWpVLJJkHd8
for the bell that Silence is too slight to reach.
Nothing happens inside the redbrick house for a moment, and then the door is272Please respect copyright.PENANAQ3SWtpBT6L
pulled open. Silence and the boy stare at the woman with milk-like skin, red272Please respect copyright.PENANAvVnA0gE2CF
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 when272Please respect copyright.PENANA9Mi8KlqLyd
she spoke to Silence, she did not like children of their so-called gender very272Please respect copyright.PENANAA5YzkUNMV2
much.
The old man says a few words to the woman and turns, leaving Silence behind272Please respect copyright.PENANAEWq6T8RkQH
him to be ushered inside by the woman with milk skin.
Apprehension, then foreign to little Silence, fills Silence like272Please respect copyright.PENANAM84df7IT76
butterflies, and leap around like butterflies do when caught in a net. The272Please respect copyright.PENANA8j9e7B2xmP
butterflies leap ever frantically as sharp vocal urgings, push Silence into a272Please respect copyright.PENANApxmhlTN6cE
room with a mirror with gold trim and two nightstands of mahogany, and a bed272Please respect copyright.PENANAymLcxSku45
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 the272Please respect copyright.PENANAQwdOJjEZKk
recollection where they felt hungry. There was someone else in the house with272Please respect copyright.PENANA2D4FwKnxy3
the old woman; another person bigger than Silence. She was milk of skin, but with blonde hair that272Please respect copyright.PENANAM9U7s3k4Py
bounced about in curly springs.
Before the old man had left Silence behind, he had given both the boy and272Please respect copyright.PENANAx9343mIf6t
Silence a snack of popcorn and orange slice, to eat in the car. The boy did not272Please respect copyright.PENANA9XLHbSxLxW
like oranges and had thrown the four pieces of orange from the window. Silence272Please respect copyright.PENANAbgBZsngFxp
did not throw their orange pieces out of272Please respect copyright.PENANA4h0J8zgprc
the window, and the old man told Silence 272Please respect copyright.PENANAh6BYtTgDOU
they were very good and the boy was very bad.
Silence walks into the great room where the old woman and the other woman272Please respect copyright.PENANAaHWGX9SOn6
sit in arm chairs and watch the television. The women are watching Shrek.272Please respect copyright.PENANAAjmRV7lpI3
Silence knows they are watching Shrek because there is a green man, a donkey272Please respect copyright.PENANADCUTzpucRb
and a pink dragon.
Silence was not hungry in the car, but now the feel their stomach gurgle.272Please respect copyright.PENANAQMWRu5f1SK
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 at272Please respect copyright.PENANAcXh5G8Naiy
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. The272Please respect copyright.PENANAjHyYaHLZbS
woman with red hair is on her feet now and stands over Silence, before reaching272Please respect copyright.PENANAFMzPc8gIdf
down to snatch at the snack.
Silence blinks four times as they watch the old woman lumber toward the bin272Please respect copyright.PENANAFvubRDMiY7
and throw away the food. The one older than Silence, snaps that good children272Please respect copyright.PENANAlolWtFqnk9
should always ask for things, and that their mum, who, must be the old woman,272Please respect copyright.PENANAAs5GY1PKeG
does not believe that children need to have snacks.
The memory begins to roll away. Silence returns To their272Please respect copyright.PENANAVKfVWeN8gI
room where they sit stripped of clothing and pride, and remembers how the old272Please respect copyright.PENANAJmfELqFREZ
man did272Please respect copyright.PENANAyvAbQY36ip
not take anything from Silence, when the boy threw his snack out of the car272Please respect copyright.PENANA5NlO6TTJCW
window. The old man had told Silence they were very good. Then, the think about272Please respect copyright.PENANAXk6ucSYBUD
how the old woman snatched away the orange slices, and threw them in the bin.272Please respect copyright.PENANA1h9z45UUq0
Silence realises that really, they must be very bad.
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