As Silence stares at the door,273Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzhLxq5XngF
another memory echoes in the long hallway. Before they can annotate it, they273Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIxmlsuuQNp
are distracted by the dolls that stand alongside the walls. There are nine273Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwwKS8TIoZB
dolls, impressive in size and moulded in milk.
The dolls are red of hair that falls down gaunt necks, and on their hands,273Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXR35ZZDwLq
Silence sees elongated fingers. Silence does not yearn to see the finger where273Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOZfWR9em90
the ring sits. They do not wish to comprehend the dolls further, and so Silence273Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ12Yp87K1Dw
turns away.
In the recollection, Silence is perhaps a child of seven. They stand before273Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7HdeZGeUyE
a door, too slight to reach the white doorbell with the black button. There are273Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxCod8OKmeU
two other people with Silence. The boy has black hair, and it is messy; he took273Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4QpkPxDbWQ
a nap in the car that had not seemed very restful to Silence. The boy has 273Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA285fFVohO
green eyes that glittered with something that Silence would soon learn273Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVlT1FxaSij
to hate.
The other is an old man. Silence decided he was old when they first met him273Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGs7cc5I6o3
because the man has to walk with a stick. And he was very slow. The man has one273Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBXTr9DnWPN
hand on the suitcase with faded butterfly stickers and the other stretching out273Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDRwgupJFtM
for the bell that Silence is too slight to reach.
Nothing happens inside the redbrick house for a moment, and then the door is273Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJUSLk0GdH3
pulled open. Silence and the boy stare at the woman with milk-like skin, red273Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7nS0q9MoDw
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 when273Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDo8Sj4oB2Y
she spoke to Silence, she did not like children of their so-called gender very273Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxYyKTUQRww
much.
The old man says a few words to the woman and turns, leaving Silence behind273Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1vNTD8cqoj
him to be ushered inside by the woman with milk skin.
Apprehension, then foreign to little Silence, fills Silence like273Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7jqorqRcqN
butterflies, and leap around like butterflies do when caught in a net. The273Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBhQH9wDfRz
butterflies leap ever frantically as sharp vocal urgings, push Silence into a273Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ55Ui0YiFAF
room with a mirror with gold trim and two nightstands of mahogany, and a bed273Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7gmf7AoxuJ
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 the273Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb0STNQC94l
recollection where they felt hungry. There was someone else in the house with273Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCZTNcncfY7
the old woman; another person bigger than Silence. She was milk of skin, but with blonde hair that273Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgn9HEughsh
bounced about in curly springs.
Before the old man had left Silence behind, he had given both the boy and273Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIkgxFJsq3H
Silence a snack of popcorn and orange slice, to eat in the car. The boy did not273Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNoMDusH6SO
like oranges and had thrown the four pieces of orange from the window. Silence273Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGSwa0AjOFd
did not throw their orange pieces out of273Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ1hz3GgCnN
the window, and the old man told Silence 273Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7gIgiDGw0G
they were very good and the boy was very bad.
Silence walks into the great room where the old woman and the other woman273Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj1hubwxDOZ
sit in arm chairs and watch the television. The women are watching Shrek.273Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeqm4anS5Mf
Silence knows they are watching Shrek because there is a green man, a donkey273Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMvGZCMOAVf
and a pink dragon.
Silence was not hungry in the car, but now the feel their stomach gurgle.273Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzSYNhp7LoR
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 at273Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi3Kp7sG92b
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. The273Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOtE2IFDfcM
woman with red hair is on her feet now and stands over Silence, before reaching273Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVuLyyJa7J7
down to snatch at the snack.
Silence blinks four times as they watch the old woman lumber toward the bin273Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqdzj9qFixm
and throw away the food. The one older than Silence, snaps that good children273Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡojOQ0jg8kQ
should always ask for things, and that their mum, who, must be the old woman,273Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1HwDJlfntQ
does not believe that children need to have snacks.
The memory begins to roll away. Silence returns To their273Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuNRGE4s12R
room where they sit stripped of clothing and pride, and remembers how the old273Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfWYKXqzwbv
man did273Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7yp3W0g1B0
not take anything from Silence, when the boy threw his snack out of the car273Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDit1a2vyIW
window. The old man had told Silence they were very good. Then, the think about273Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQHlgK3rTkI
how the old woman snatched away the orange slices, and threw them in the bin.273Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoyrnpvLoek
Silence realises that really, they must be very bad.
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