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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