As Silence stares at the door,325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtcKQ6kAkaA
another memory echoes in the long hallway. Before they can annotate it, they325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxihM4iLUcs
are distracted by the dolls that stand alongside the walls. There are nine325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfq2jchprqS
dolls, impressive in size and moulded in milk.
The dolls are red of hair that falls down gaunt necks, and on their hands,325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwijQyrMUXL
Silence sees elongated fingers. Silence does not yearn to see the finger where325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLtxzsy58c7
the ring sits. They do not wish to comprehend the dolls further, and so Silence325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm6KaWKjYbm
turns away.
In the recollection, Silence is perhaps a child of seven. They stand before325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlpfR4rVtbo
a door, too slight to reach the white doorbell with the black button. There are325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxw7Fl7rJXG
two other people with Silence. The boy has black hair, and it is messy; he took325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMEFWH4i463
a nap in the car that had not seemed very restful to Silence. The boy has 325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡthCyXE0qGD
green eyes that glittered with something that Silence would soon learn325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXjE7am7jCM
to hate.
The other is an old man. Silence decided he was old when they first met him325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqs6eZQHgCs
because the man has to walk with a stick. And he was very slow. The man has one325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡixTqhThln4
hand on the suitcase with faded butterfly stickers and the other stretching out325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7pf2bVuzAH
for the bell that Silence is too slight to reach.
Nothing happens inside the redbrick house for a moment, and then the door is325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPy0YMPCtLL
pulled open. Silence and the boy stare at the woman with milk-like skin, red325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvqfmdsKpaS
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 when325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWk1UAReaLI
she spoke to Silence, she did not like children of their so-called gender very325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOcCNd04Ims
much.
The old man says a few words to the woman and turns, leaving Silence behind325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBdkoXjLlxJ
him to be ushered inside by the woman with milk skin.
Apprehension, then foreign to little Silence, fills Silence like325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAcTDNFBsek
butterflies, and leap around like butterflies do when caught in a net. The325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPiwRemqcpN
butterflies leap ever frantically as sharp vocal urgings, push Silence into a325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFdONq1Yhni
room with a mirror with gold trim and two nightstands of mahogany, and a bed325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd2u0Fqd5dh
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 the325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnJhxDEA953
recollection where they felt hungry. There was someone else in the house with325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡITbRjlT56f
the old woman; another person bigger than Silence. She was milk of skin, but with blonde hair that325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqVXAmnjTGO
bounced about in curly springs.
Before the old man had left Silence behind, he had given both the boy and325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsO2Eo3BUdP
Silence a snack of popcorn and orange slice, to eat in the car. The boy did not325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdMleDjWWq8
like oranges and had thrown the four pieces of orange from the window. Silence325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLkYTIpDmvN
did not throw their orange pieces out of325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrlTDqYJR6T
the window, and the old man told Silence 325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIicolOrawk
they were very good and the boy was very bad.
Silence walks into the great room where the old woman and the other woman325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbKCJxSDOC4
sit in arm chairs and watch the television. The women are watching Shrek.325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcx0Ix1zFOx
Silence knows they are watching Shrek because there is a green man, a donkey325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh8ne3bbrtx
and a pink dragon.
Silence was not hungry in the car, but now the feel their stomach gurgle.325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCQ3aZ3yoKw
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 at325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIbuDXD26VI
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. The325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWwJqpLvUNq
woman with red hair is on her feet now and stands over Silence, before reaching325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOKOblx2N3E
down to snatch at the snack.
Silence blinks four times as they watch the old woman lumber toward the bin325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe9e17FqIic
and throw away the food. The one older than Silence, snaps that good children325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIj1g2jxZMb
should always ask for things, and that their mum, who, must be the old woman,325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDx9x0ueu65
does not believe that children need to have snacks.
The memory begins to roll away. Silence returns To their325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF689KaIeLF
room where they sit stripped of clothing and pride, and remembers how the old325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaiAyX7etw9
man did325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcOi1SHnpIT
not take anything from Silence, when the boy threw his snack out of the car325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQXCSd5Mj9c
window. The old man had told Silence they were very good. Then, the think about325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLEYd0cbDa6
how the old woman snatched away the orange slices, and threw them in the bin.325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5ewS0rMEkm
Silence realises that really, they must be very bad.
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