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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