As Silence stares at the door,306Please respect copyright.PENANAD1hpmym2op
another memory echoes in the long hallway. Before they can annotate it, they306Please respect copyright.PENANAnDWxnN0tGc
are distracted by the dolls that stand alongside the walls. There are nine306Please respect copyright.PENANApFj76y9xyi
dolls, impressive in size and moulded in milk.
The dolls are red of hair that falls down gaunt necks, and on their hands,306Please respect copyright.PENANA2FrtoFiWXu
Silence sees elongated fingers. Silence does not yearn to see the finger where306Please respect copyright.PENANAGZvrROOgPk
the ring sits. They do not wish to comprehend the dolls further, and so Silence306Please respect copyright.PENANAwOsLVaujYf
turns away.
In the recollection, Silence is perhaps a child of seven. They stand before306Please respect copyright.PENANA65uy3YszFe
a door, too slight to reach the white doorbell with the black button. There are306Please respect copyright.PENANACwARFMgJUF
two other people with Silence. The boy has black hair, and it is messy; he took306Please respect copyright.PENANA9AGihXcggA
a nap in the car that had not seemed very restful to Silence. The boy has 306Please respect copyright.PENANAkZcoZZ5qGV
green eyes that glittered with something that Silence would soon learn306Please respect copyright.PENANAC5g21cYgOM
to hate.
The other is an old man. Silence decided he was old when they first met him306Please respect copyright.PENANATAkOsNNd2M
because the man has to walk with a stick. And he was very slow. The man has one306Please respect copyright.PENANAbDzCuwVdMc
hand on the suitcase with faded butterfly stickers and the other stretching out306Please respect copyright.PENANAee1UnUK4yq
for the bell that Silence is too slight to reach.
Nothing happens inside the redbrick house for a moment, and then the door is306Please respect copyright.PENANAHI9MGAP3Ig
pulled open. Silence and the boy stare at the woman with milk-like skin, red306Please respect copyright.PENANACA1ExcO49G
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 when306Please respect copyright.PENANAHmHbJCF2Ef
she spoke to Silence, she did not like children of their so-called gender very306Please respect copyright.PENANAZRcVGvXrwm
much.
The old man says a few words to the woman and turns, leaving Silence behind306Please respect copyright.PENANAklrImCWdra
him to be ushered inside by the woman with milk skin.
Apprehension, then foreign to little Silence, fills Silence like306Please respect copyright.PENANARrGgyKI0v6
butterflies, and leap around like butterflies do when caught in a net. The306Please respect copyright.PENANAlSDYrWWhM8
butterflies leap ever frantically as sharp vocal urgings, push Silence into a306Please respect copyright.PENANAC3ahgLuwLj
room with a mirror with gold trim and two nightstands of mahogany, and a bed306Please respect copyright.PENANAIrrbkFKz97
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 the306Please respect copyright.PENANA2dn2IhPU6j
recollection where they felt hungry. There was someone else in the house with306Please respect copyright.PENANA8ElF10Z4oJ
the old woman; another person bigger than Silence. She was milk of skin, but with blonde hair that306Please respect copyright.PENANAl048a685nT
bounced about in curly springs.
Before the old man had left Silence behind, he had given both the boy and306Please respect copyright.PENANAPuS9PXR1wB
Silence a snack of popcorn and orange slice, to eat in the car. The boy did not306Please respect copyright.PENANAQn9nbgIO2a
like oranges and had thrown the four pieces of orange from the window. Silence306Please respect copyright.PENANAcaEpcJHXCy
did not throw their orange pieces out of306Please respect copyright.PENANAazHpxwsTXu
the window, and the old man told Silence 306Please respect copyright.PENANAmZsxVZXJmC
they were very good and the boy was very bad.
Silence walks into the great room where the old woman and the other woman306Please respect copyright.PENANAaKNDrM6RlP
sit in arm chairs and watch the television. The women are watching Shrek.306Please respect copyright.PENANAumAJW6TqaN
Silence knows they are watching Shrek because there is a green man, a donkey306Please respect copyright.PENANAszbTceXQiG
and a pink dragon.
Silence was not hungry in the car, but now the feel their stomach gurgle.306Please respect copyright.PENANA3K0Iqn3g5O
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 at306Please respect copyright.PENANAxyzfUrU4dW
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. The306Please respect copyright.PENANAPy5B701qfP
woman with red hair is on her feet now and stands over Silence, before reaching306Please respect copyright.PENANAEKmKeU9pP3
down to snatch at the snack.
Silence blinks four times as they watch the old woman lumber toward the bin306Please respect copyright.PENANA3X3593eSFh
and throw away the food. The one older than Silence, snaps that good children306Please respect copyright.PENANASoWDcEuHw8
should always ask for things, and that their mum, who, must be the old woman,306Please respect copyright.PENANApB0VPNWHMo
does not believe that children need to have snacks.
The memory begins to roll away. Silence returns To their306Please respect copyright.PENANAv6NN7rfRNL
room where they sit stripped of clothing and pride, and remembers how the old306Please respect copyright.PENANARiH6rtDgQM
man did306Please respect copyright.PENANAzz3yhzC5wh
not take anything from Silence, when the boy threw his snack out of the car306Please respect copyright.PENANA2KJ7k9D4EH
window. The old man had told Silence they were very good. Then, the think about306Please respect copyright.PENANAR33hzxemZE
how the old woman snatched away the orange slices, and threw them in the bin.306Please respect copyright.PENANA4Zd0vGU745
Silence realises that really, they must be very bad.
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