As Silence stares at the door,367Please respect copyright.PENANANKbb47j6K6
another memory echoes in the long hallway. Before they can annotate it, they367Please respect copyright.PENANAOL7gS6eHiw
are distracted by the dolls that stand alongside the walls. There are nine367Please respect copyright.PENANANBPbcYyenW
dolls, impressive in size and moulded in milk.
The dolls are red of hair that falls down gaunt necks, and on their hands,367Please respect copyright.PENANAqHtHgf1Kp6
Silence sees elongated fingers. Silence does not yearn to see the finger where367Please respect copyright.PENANAFOvWalmLS1
the ring sits. They do not wish to comprehend the dolls further, and so Silence367Please respect copyright.PENANANv7o1STaxv
turns away.
In the recollection, Silence is perhaps a child of seven. They stand before367Please respect copyright.PENANAU6PygwpXHZ
a door, too slight to reach the white doorbell with the black button. There are367Please respect copyright.PENANAn1w2zA0Vad
two other people with Silence. The boy has black hair, and it is messy; he took367Please respect copyright.PENANAgXWeAPvpc9
a nap in the car that had not seemed very restful to Silence. The boy has 367Please respect copyright.PENANAUUGp3S6Zf0
green eyes that glittered with something that Silence would soon learn367Please respect copyright.PENANAn8YwxbX0KN
to hate.
The other is an old man. Silence decided he was old when they first met him367Please respect copyright.PENANAsNKeWWErXz
because the man has to walk with a stick. And he was very slow. The man has one367Please respect copyright.PENANAZhY9crYh4a
hand on the suitcase with faded butterfly stickers and the other stretching out367Please respect copyright.PENANAdq99nUzh4z
for the bell that Silence is too slight to reach.
Nothing happens inside the redbrick house for a moment, and then the door is367Please respect copyright.PENANAEZNyBnD1Zl
pulled open. Silence and the boy stare at the woman with milk-like skin, red367Please respect copyright.PENANAlaWMn0pOAm
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 when367Please respect copyright.PENANAWlw4xtP1nP
she spoke to Silence, she did not like children of their so-called gender very367Please respect copyright.PENANALxXVfu34Ez
much.
The old man says a few words to the woman and turns, leaving Silence behind367Please respect copyright.PENANA7ESpNws3bv
him to be ushered inside by the woman with milk skin.
Apprehension, then foreign to little Silence, fills Silence like367Please respect copyright.PENANAjBxACNYSCg
butterflies, and leap around like butterflies do when caught in a net. The367Please respect copyright.PENANA2g90vJyDuj
butterflies leap ever frantically as sharp vocal urgings, push Silence into a367Please respect copyright.PENANA8BDRe3nV7N
room with a mirror with gold trim and two nightstands of mahogany, and a bed367Please respect copyright.PENANA8E8UAkN3x5
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 the367Please respect copyright.PENANAVz1dOQjFX7
recollection where they felt hungry. There was someone else in the house with367Please respect copyright.PENANAzNEiaNO5qc
the old woman; another person bigger than Silence. She was milk of skin, but with blonde hair that367Please respect copyright.PENANAz5SzDlrwW6
bounced about in curly springs.
Before the old man had left Silence behind, he had given both the boy and367Please respect copyright.PENANAjUrq6Xuicx
Silence a snack of popcorn and orange slice, to eat in the car. The boy did not367Please respect copyright.PENANAQIr8so7GPY
like oranges and had thrown the four pieces of orange from the window. Silence367Please respect copyright.PENANARuc8AxXFtm
did not throw their orange pieces out of367Please respect copyright.PENANA4DSZpkJq3b
the window, and the old man told Silence 367Please respect copyright.PENANAMrXhs9rjsg
they were very good and the boy was very bad.
Silence walks into the great room where the old woman and the other woman367Please respect copyright.PENANAFcYhFbqVgu
sit in arm chairs and watch the television. The women are watching Shrek.367Please respect copyright.PENANAvyZT0tRMVh
Silence knows they are watching Shrek because there is a green man, a donkey367Please respect copyright.PENANAfu7qsnPVPk
and a pink dragon.
Silence was not hungry in the car, but now the feel their stomach gurgle.367Please respect copyright.PENANAuldlX7Zxoy
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 at367Please respect copyright.PENANAOWuGXKS1Y8
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. The367Please respect copyright.PENANAv0L35mnZZA
woman with red hair is on her feet now and stands over Silence, before reaching367Please respect copyright.PENANAGJSgKF7jiB
down to snatch at the snack.
Silence blinks four times as they watch the old woman lumber toward the bin367Please respect copyright.PENANAyLMxq50e5b
and throw away the food. The one older than Silence, snaps that good children367Please respect copyright.PENANAsl6gEvM9nz
should always ask for things, and that their mum, who, must be the old woman,367Please respect copyright.PENANAfT2UHdipiz
does not believe that children need to have snacks.
The memory begins to roll away. Silence returns To their367Please respect copyright.PENANAZ1zBBIQBYL
room where they sit stripped of clothing and pride, and remembers how the old367Please respect copyright.PENANA3iHAyv5zSc
man did367Please respect copyright.PENANAuJNSd5NuAU
not take anything from Silence, when the boy threw his snack out of the car367Please respect copyright.PENANA90XWMGYKEM
window. The old man had told Silence they were very good. Then, the think about367Please respect copyright.PENANA2IfHAnspQ0
how the old woman snatched away the orange slices, and threw them in the bin.367Please respect copyright.PENANA71J5zGCpgR
Silence realises that really, they must be very bad.
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