As Silence stares at the door,424Please respect copyright.PENANADbpZwwQtfM
another memory echoes in the long hallway. Before they can annotate it, they424Please respect copyright.PENANAQ1g5Vm6mYS
are distracted by the dolls that stand alongside the walls. There are nine424Please respect copyright.PENANAIduFsS2u12
dolls, impressive in size and moulded in milk.
The dolls are red of hair that falls down gaunt necks, and on their hands,424Please respect copyright.PENANAWJ0ccj4XHs
Silence sees elongated fingers. Silence does not yearn to see the finger where424Please respect copyright.PENANAWUY9lS0tFT
the ring sits. They do not wish to comprehend the dolls further, and so Silence424Please respect copyright.PENANAOj9xwo3tvi
turns away.
In the recollection, Silence is perhaps a child of seven. They stand before424Please respect copyright.PENANAbsKHUhRnCZ
a door, too slight to reach the white doorbell with the black button. There are424Please respect copyright.PENANAxF6CosWsFV
two other people with Silence. The boy has black hair, and it is messy; he took424Please respect copyright.PENANARBI1oY8g80
a nap in the car that had not seemed very restful to Silence. The boy has 424Please respect copyright.PENANAk0uSkvPtDK
green eyes that glittered with something that Silence would soon learn424Please respect copyright.PENANAHSc7ecoJyD
to hate.
The other is an old man. Silence decided he was old when they first met him424Please respect copyright.PENANAZgsaaXBMjq
because the man has to walk with a stick. And he was very slow. The man has one424Please respect copyright.PENANApowIE0Fmgx
hand on the suitcase with faded butterfly stickers and the other stretching out424Please respect copyright.PENANAh4wZfalNvw
for the bell that Silence is too slight to reach.
Nothing happens inside the redbrick house for a moment, and then the door is424Please respect copyright.PENANAzacXGVqjv9
pulled open. Silence and the boy stare at the woman with milk-like skin, red424Please respect copyright.PENANAlRBmPYD9bx
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 when424Please respect copyright.PENANA83OYHGnR4f
she spoke to Silence, she did not like children of their so-called gender very424Please respect copyright.PENANAnRzTfZRZgn
much.
The old man says a few words to the woman and turns, leaving Silence behind424Please respect copyright.PENANAOnfmuPVGm4
him to be ushered inside by the woman with milk skin.
Apprehension, then foreign to little Silence, fills Silence like424Please respect copyright.PENANA356ndk6J8t
butterflies, and leap around like butterflies do when caught in a net. The424Please respect copyright.PENANAyH5MaXjE9y
butterflies leap ever frantically as sharp vocal urgings, push Silence into a424Please respect copyright.PENANAPajVskVUK5
room with a mirror with gold trim and two nightstands of mahogany, and a bed424Please respect copyright.PENANAe2v0lNq8rw
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 the424Please respect copyright.PENANA7pNhCuLc2n
recollection where they felt hungry. There was someone else in the house with424Please respect copyright.PENANAK1G4cQkWKF
the old woman; another person bigger than Silence. She was milk of skin, but with blonde hair that424Please respect copyright.PENANAp3FBS0Ch6P
bounced about in curly springs.
Before the old man had left Silence behind, he had given both the boy and424Please respect copyright.PENANANnLKRBiwBp
Silence a snack of popcorn and orange slice, to eat in the car. The boy did not424Please respect copyright.PENANAUFwhO1ZbJO
like oranges and had thrown the four pieces of orange from the window. Silence424Please respect copyright.PENANAGFlV1bZLgN
did not throw their orange pieces out of424Please respect copyright.PENANAqM7upmpVf9
the window, and the old man told Silence 424Please respect copyright.PENANAHqV5Dop2ED
they were very good and the boy was very bad.
Silence walks into the great room where the old woman and the other woman424Please respect copyright.PENANAk9E1xDZfRd
sit in arm chairs and watch the television. The women are watching Shrek.424Please respect copyright.PENANArfYLY47p5a
Silence knows they are watching Shrek because there is a green man, a donkey424Please respect copyright.PENANA8EiB5rxEP2
and a pink dragon.
Silence was not hungry in the car, but now the feel their stomach gurgle.424Please respect copyright.PENANAv3TTSjjkwK
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 at424Please respect copyright.PENANACFVrg8kMnK
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. The424Please respect copyright.PENANAf6SualJSU7
woman with red hair is on her feet now and stands over Silence, before reaching424Please respect copyright.PENANAyx3F0uA57x
down to snatch at the snack.
Silence blinks four times as they watch the old woman lumber toward the bin424Please respect copyright.PENANAqjPMOk1cIV
and throw away the food. The one older than Silence, snaps that good children424Please respect copyright.PENANAKEg82lWdxA
should always ask for things, and that their mum, who, must be the old woman,424Please respect copyright.PENANABG8bRUEKFf
does not believe that children need to have snacks.
The memory begins to roll away. Silence returns To their424Please respect copyright.PENANAK2JJjYCJ7u
room where they sit stripped of clothing and pride, and remembers how the old424Please respect copyright.PENANAEexUcFBeP3
man did424Please respect copyright.PENANAHRwQTKP2hy
not take anything from Silence, when the boy threw his snack out of the car424Please respect copyright.PENANAX3y3lGDLcL
window. The old man had told Silence they were very good. Then, the think about424Please respect copyright.PENANAKlTf0E6GBB
how the old woman snatched away the orange slices, and threw them in the bin.424Please respect copyright.PENANAtleFTCGcvJ
Silence realises that really, they must be very bad.
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