As Silence stares at the door,369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCSYzvo83zT
another memory echoes in the long hallway. Before they can annotate it, they369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHqPKCxeu7P
are distracted by the dolls that stand alongside the walls. There are nine369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF68zyVW6vC
dolls, impressive in size and moulded in milk.
The dolls are red of hair that falls down gaunt necks, and on their hands,369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCdtZ4twV1J
Silence sees elongated fingers. Silence does not yearn to see the finger where369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡruvOiKEic8
the ring sits. They do not wish to comprehend the dolls further, and so Silence369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSIJbPlQ5SB
turns away.
In the recollection, Silence is perhaps a child of seven. They stand before369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdxbkRFPqca
a door, too slight to reach the white doorbell with the black button. There are369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGbPMx7deTV
two other people with Silence. The boy has black hair, and it is messy; he took369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXA6zEHEsYi
a nap in the car that had not seemed very restful to Silence. The boy has 369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡapPCCaEue7
green eyes that glittered with something that Silence would soon learn369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC4FV5U5eww
to hate.
The other is an old man. Silence decided he was old when they first met him369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzRCfm7Yvzz
because the man has to walk with a stick. And he was very slow. The man has one369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4iZ30smuZo
hand on the suitcase with faded butterfly stickers and the other stretching out369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX93CXba79I
for the bell that Silence is too slight to reach.
Nothing happens inside the redbrick house for a moment, and then the door is369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxsdNrNszLt
pulled open. Silence and the boy stare at the woman with milk-like skin, red369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ80pi7EVBZI
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 when369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDEXbyNnCP4
she spoke to Silence, she did not like children of their so-called gender very369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2gMDbylXtf
much.
The old man says a few words to the woman and turns, leaving Silence behind369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡraztrl9WkG
him to be ushered inside by the woman with milk skin.
Apprehension, then foreign to little Silence, fills Silence like369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDvDsj2tjcH
butterflies, and leap around like butterflies do when caught in a net. The369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiKGE5VSkKj
butterflies leap ever frantically as sharp vocal urgings, push Silence into a369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo6WQ62TvW1
room with a mirror with gold trim and two nightstands of mahogany, and a bed369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjSgBPLjqBf
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 the369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV4EbRMMZBm
recollection where they felt hungry. There was someone else in the house with369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOJI4jhyVZg
the old woman; another person bigger than Silence. She was milk of skin, but with blonde hair that369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ14w4KTOOAn
bounced about in curly springs.
Before the old man had left Silence behind, he had given both the boy and369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkQwhDfvaAp
Silence a snack of popcorn and orange slice, to eat in the car. The boy did not369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPXJ0gKcnoR
like oranges and had thrown the four pieces of orange from the window. Silence369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ74ReQeUatk
did not throw their orange pieces out of369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRsT9lm0SW0
the window, and the old man told Silence 369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQEDaZdIJ3w
they were very good and the boy was very bad.
Silence walks into the great room where the old woman and the other woman369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqSLwfyKJvN
sit in arm chairs and watch the television. The women are watching Shrek.369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYbCLeU6O5M
Silence knows they are watching Shrek because there is a green man, a donkey369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY7G6rvn0qZ
and a pink dragon.
Silence was not hungry in the car, but now the feel their stomach gurgle.369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuGnQfIull9
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 at369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJO4mrjNMX5
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. The369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAedHkrrU5P
woman with red hair is on her feet now and stands over Silence, before reaching369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJIEO0GHgsj
down to snatch at the snack.
Silence blinks four times as they watch the old woman lumber toward the bin369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqyibtVMjVN
and throw away the food. The one older than Silence, snaps that good children369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjq8SOnR5SL
should always ask for things, and that their mum, who, must be the old woman,369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrOyciRbCIn
does not believe that children need to have snacks.
The memory begins to roll away. Silence returns To their369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbGX6Mc7vTU
room where they sit stripped of clothing and pride, and remembers how the old369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0mzs9E5mDn
man did369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDolQ6lxAoW
not take anything from Silence, when the boy threw his snack out of the car369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnDPTVx1XRj
window. The old man had told Silence they were very good. Then, the think about369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqmEC0I07Pt
how the old woman snatched away the orange slices, and threw them in the bin.369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT41wlmvPMN
Silence realises that really, they must be very bad.
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