As Silence stares at the door,268Please respect copyright.PENANAOQ9lvBGXig
another memory echoes in the long hallway. Before they can annotate it, they268Please respect copyright.PENANAJVCrzJYX3o
are distracted by the dolls that stand alongside the walls. There are nine268Please respect copyright.PENANAvAILor59s0
dolls, impressive in size and moulded in milk.
The dolls are red of hair that falls down gaunt necks, and on their hands,268Please respect copyright.PENANARZVSb484pj
Silence sees elongated fingers. Silence does not yearn to see the finger where268Please respect copyright.PENANAePhQOBJ5ui
the ring sits. They do not wish to comprehend the dolls further, and so Silence268Please respect copyright.PENANAdu5DPrODc1
turns away.
In the recollection, Silence is perhaps a child of seven. They stand before268Please respect copyright.PENANA0NniWq2Ir7
a door, too slight to reach the white doorbell with the black button. There are268Please respect copyright.PENANA0zM06hkXkM
two other people with Silence. The boy has black hair, and it is messy; he took268Please respect copyright.PENANAyVnoZIFWyr
a nap in the car that had not seemed very restful to Silence. The boy has 268Please respect copyright.PENANAVVEtKbPs8H
green eyes that glittered with something that Silence would soon learn268Please respect copyright.PENANA0oJyaJMA28
to hate.
The other is an old man. Silence decided he was old when they first met him268Please respect copyright.PENANAG7K9xep0S4
because the man has to walk with a stick. And he was very slow. The man has one268Please respect copyright.PENANAM6V4DORArI
hand on the suitcase with faded butterfly stickers and the other stretching out268Please respect copyright.PENANAXSsCz79ll9
for the bell that Silence is too slight to reach.
Nothing happens inside the redbrick house for a moment, and then the door is268Please respect copyright.PENANATt91YDvIjJ
pulled open. Silence and the boy stare at the woman with milk-like skin, red268Please respect copyright.PENANAAgqf9RD4Ky
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 when268Please respect copyright.PENANAcz8bBX2lxY
she spoke to Silence, she did not like children of their so-called gender very268Please respect copyright.PENANA5BEQV7HIfS
much.
The old man says a few words to the woman and turns, leaving Silence behind268Please respect copyright.PENANAk4ujU1Yk8Z
him to be ushered inside by the woman with milk skin.
Apprehension, then foreign to little Silence, fills Silence like268Please respect copyright.PENANABgUEum1k3t
butterflies, and leap around like butterflies do when caught in a net. The268Please respect copyright.PENANAeQESF9UyHi
butterflies leap ever frantically as sharp vocal urgings, push Silence into a268Please respect copyright.PENANAjPFX9fe7Ox
room with a mirror with gold trim and two nightstands of mahogany, and a bed268Please respect copyright.PENANA7UYgwJWnhH
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 the268Please respect copyright.PENANAziD7Pd9p1r
recollection where they felt hungry. There was someone else in the house with268Please respect copyright.PENANAHxDExUbgiL
the old woman; another person bigger than Silence. She was milk of skin, but with blonde hair that268Please respect copyright.PENANA4fLoI8tD6E
bounced about in curly springs.
Before the old man had left Silence behind, he had given both the boy and268Please respect copyright.PENANAXplPOwy5h7
Silence a snack of popcorn and orange slice, to eat in the car. The boy did not268Please respect copyright.PENANAKkGDmVdKd2
like oranges and had thrown the four pieces of orange from the window. Silence268Please respect copyright.PENANApy8btIhvtt
did not throw their orange pieces out of268Please respect copyright.PENANA4G0zu8qOOB
the window, and the old man told Silence 268Please respect copyright.PENANAQzZ6yqN1r5
they were very good and the boy was very bad.
Silence walks into the great room where the old woman and the other woman268Please respect copyright.PENANAFGYCUtP2o8
sit in arm chairs and watch the television. The women are watching Shrek.268Please respect copyright.PENANAoz2T7XSZ4L
Silence knows they are watching Shrek because there is a green man, a donkey268Please respect copyright.PENANAS69sP1Lrmb
and a pink dragon.
Silence was not hungry in the car, but now the feel their stomach gurgle.268Please respect copyright.PENANA8MaYS8VX4p
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 at268Please respect copyright.PENANAWM6C50qy4R
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. The268Please respect copyright.PENANAXiiS45d3t6
woman with red hair is on her feet now and stands over Silence, before reaching268Please respect copyright.PENANAO0CLxE95Tn
down to snatch at the snack.
Silence blinks four times as they watch the old woman lumber toward the bin268Please respect copyright.PENANAgPhsiuAI4X
and throw away the food. The one older than Silence, snaps that good children268Please respect copyright.PENANAVsijdiCoIZ
should always ask for things, and that their mum, who, must be the old woman,268Please respect copyright.PENANA3gt7DOVCIi
does not believe that children need to have snacks.
The memory begins to roll away. Silence returns To their268Please respect copyright.PENANA6x5gcT6Rha
room where they sit stripped of clothing and pride, and remembers how the old268Please respect copyright.PENANAUmiuCBrBGm
man did268Please respect copyright.PENANA9qwueggrzy
not take anything from Silence, when the boy threw his snack out of the car268Please respect copyright.PENANAOsPfjIU2P0
window. The old man had told Silence they were very good. Then, the think about268Please respect copyright.PENANA6qDuWhBBrK
how the old woman snatched away the orange slices, and threw them in the bin.268Please respect copyright.PENANAFk5P5ceEuA
Silence realises that really, they must be very bad.
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