As Silence stares at the door,310Please respect copyright.PENANACYdqs470tw
another memory echoes in the long hallway. Before they can annotate it, they310Please respect copyright.PENANAiFnCmYHSZn
are distracted by the dolls that stand alongside the walls. There are nine310Please respect copyright.PENANAzu6k6rU2bQ
dolls, impressive in size and moulded in milk.
The dolls are red of hair that falls down gaunt necks, and on their hands,310Please respect copyright.PENANAyfIbH9DwRe
Silence sees elongated fingers. Silence does not yearn to see the finger where310Please respect copyright.PENANAOrX1s4nC3i
the ring sits. They do not wish to comprehend the dolls further, and so Silence310Please respect copyright.PENANAQLai5xzWWt
turns away.
In the recollection, Silence is perhaps a child of seven. They stand before310Please respect copyright.PENANAArcb74w0jL
a door, too slight to reach the white doorbell with the black button. There are310Please respect copyright.PENANAEpVT30wIfe
two other people with Silence. The boy has black hair, and it is messy; he took310Please respect copyright.PENANA5Ua7nXRdc7
a nap in the car that had not seemed very restful to Silence. The boy has 310Please respect copyright.PENANAWA2CFKrBRO
green eyes that glittered with something that Silence would soon learn310Please respect copyright.PENANAO9TyjesEje
to hate.
The other is an old man. Silence decided he was old when they first met him310Please respect copyright.PENANAcMcdEFFrBn
because the man has to walk with a stick. And he was very slow. The man has one310Please respect copyright.PENANAskP4n1cZXG
hand on the suitcase with faded butterfly stickers and the other stretching out310Please respect copyright.PENANA3dNv1e0aSY
for the bell that Silence is too slight to reach.
Nothing happens inside the redbrick house for a moment, and then the door is310Please respect copyright.PENANApZxJb7BJj1
pulled open. Silence and the boy stare at the woman with milk-like skin, red310Please respect copyright.PENANAUSE2qHgogU
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 when310Please respect copyright.PENANAvEZYO3HIlr
she spoke to Silence, she did not like children of their so-called gender very310Please respect copyright.PENANAxu2HQwPfI6
much.
The old man says a few words to the woman and turns, leaving Silence behind310Please respect copyright.PENANAiBdGmVFDmE
him to be ushered inside by the woman with milk skin.
Apprehension, then foreign to little Silence, fills Silence like310Please respect copyright.PENANAqYLaW7F2AP
butterflies, and leap around like butterflies do when caught in a net. The310Please respect copyright.PENANA9VjM21PSwX
butterflies leap ever frantically as sharp vocal urgings, push Silence into a310Please respect copyright.PENANAivJ72ID5Cm
room with a mirror with gold trim and two nightstands of mahogany, and a bed310Please respect copyright.PENANAJYKtJAap55
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 the310Please respect copyright.PENANAAWzDbUzH7m
recollection where they felt hungry. There was someone else in the house with310Please respect copyright.PENANAHLh0bTRbh0
the old woman; another person bigger than Silence. She was milk of skin, but with blonde hair that310Please respect copyright.PENANAkFNALqUZws
bounced about in curly springs.
Before the old man had left Silence behind, he had given both the boy and310Please respect copyright.PENANACXC0iWUwS3
Silence a snack of popcorn and orange slice, to eat in the car. The boy did not310Please respect copyright.PENANAeB3mtraaK7
like oranges and had thrown the four pieces of orange from the window. Silence310Please respect copyright.PENANAl0N5X9sNST
did not throw their orange pieces out of310Please respect copyright.PENANACC9d0HZEWT
the window, and the old man told Silence 310Please respect copyright.PENANAXTQCFWqO5h
they were very good and the boy was very bad.
Silence walks into the great room where the old woman and the other woman310Please respect copyright.PENANAOMg7masA4Q
sit in arm chairs and watch the television. The women are watching Shrek.310Please respect copyright.PENANAf29sboVej5
Silence knows they are watching Shrek because there is a green man, a donkey310Please respect copyright.PENANAZT8NO4huJ4
and a pink dragon.
Silence was not hungry in the car, but now the feel their stomach gurgle.310Please respect copyright.PENANAAM9imfIUmg
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 at310Please respect copyright.PENANA9llsp3QUmO
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. The310Please respect copyright.PENANAzFFly8VBdf
woman with red hair is on her feet now and stands over Silence, before reaching310Please respect copyright.PENANA2mNKKiwUpD
down to snatch at the snack.
Silence blinks four times as they watch the old woman lumber toward the bin310Please respect copyright.PENANAIwNeTX6WhM
and throw away the food. The one older than Silence, snaps that good children310Please respect copyright.PENANAVtjnqTwifp
should always ask for things, and that their mum, who, must be the old woman,310Please respect copyright.PENANA7wYyDlBVSj
does not believe that children need to have snacks.
The memory begins to roll away. Silence returns To their310Please respect copyright.PENANAvCiJdngojy
room where they sit stripped of clothing and pride, and remembers how the old310Please respect copyright.PENANA3PmLfQvLwa
man did310Please respect copyright.PENANAPPgie2JXnX
not take anything from Silence, when the boy threw his snack out of the car310Please respect copyright.PENANAIikjoRuxvw
window. The old man had told Silence they were very good. Then, the think about310Please respect copyright.PENANAckXLxMbNCr
how the old woman snatched away the orange slices, and threw them in the bin.310Please respect copyright.PENANAsjl6uYkPGc
Silence realises that really, they must be very bad.
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