As Silence stares at the door,267Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIKMBLXHJ8Y
another memory echoes in the long hallway. Before they can annotate it, they267Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTJ8cHXUJ6t
are distracted by the dolls that stand alongside the walls. There are nine267Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw3scyO6FXu
dolls, impressive in size and moulded in milk.
The dolls are red of hair that falls down gaunt necks, and on their hands,267Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOlxr2KMcXN
Silence sees elongated fingers. Silence does not yearn to see the finger where267Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1wGttyJn32
the ring sits. They do not wish to comprehend the dolls further, and so Silence267Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcFbgFR1QOH
turns away.
In the recollection, Silence is perhaps a child of seven. They stand before267Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTz1R4sI2UJ
a door, too slight to reach the white doorbell with the black button. There are267Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZQ6EeZY4Vj
two other people with Silence. The boy has black hair, and it is messy; he took267Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSeKsRt8nCn
a nap in the car that had not seemed very restful to Silence. The boy has 267Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ0jKduNh7q
green eyes that glittered with something that Silence would soon learn267Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy7sgShvF8I
to hate.
The other is an old man. Silence decided he was old when they first met him267Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc9i4blWZ44
because the man has to walk with a stick. And he was very slow. The man has one267Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpd1IwEa3e4
hand on the suitcase with faded butterfly stickers and the other stretching out267Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhQzSWuerev
for the bell that Silence is too slight to reach.
Nothing happens inside the redbrick house for a moment, and then the door is267Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJkFdkMMaiD
pulled open. Silence and the boy stare at the woman with milk-like skin, red267Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6BRJ9w6WCA
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 when267Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkOvRPecq51
she spoke to Silence, she did not like children of their so-called gender very267Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡadxaH9HtzF
much.
The old man says a few words to the woman and turns, leaving Silence behind267Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuSy4xZp1rv
him to be ushered inside by the woman with milk skin.
Apprehension, then foreign to little Silence, fills Silence like267Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxeAEQI2MuT
butterflies, and leap around like butterflies do when caught in a net. The267Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4OrrTJ9hmP
butterflies leap ever frantically as sharp vocal urgings, push Silence into a267Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwQBEPe62m9
room with a mirror with gold trim and two nightstands of mahogany, and a bed267Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5RHUNrqjwT
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 the267Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxUZIomRvGC
recollection where they felt hungry. There was someone else in the house with267Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDQYBmmGVN4
the old woman; another person bigger than Silence. She was milk of skin, but with blonde hair that267Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡueBZlIesUO
bounced about in curly springs.
Before the old man had left Silence behind, he had given both the boy and267Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdEgFEBH3UV
Silence a snack of popcorn and orange slice, to eat in the car. The boy did not267Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0lyao3Zt4L
like oranges and had thrown the four pieces of orange from the window. Silence267Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtwBMrvGOr9
did not throw their orange pieces out of267Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeIu3LF6fWo
the window, and the old man told Silence 267Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgBu6Cx3yVH
they were very good and the boy was very bad.
Silence walks into the great room where the old woman and the other woman267Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPikFQruGIR
sit in arm chairs and watch the television. The women are watching Shrek.267Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh6swYeiOAs
Silence knows they are watching Shrek because there is a green man, a donkey267Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRiZRNKWM1D
and a pink dragon.
Silence was not hungry in the car, but now the feel their stomach gurgle.267Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy8LNQhjgCx
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 at267Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUPh1JUwNWx
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. The267Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOrFPAolRdE
woman with red hair is on her feet now and stands over Silence, before reaching267Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSEMPbXpFct
down to snatch at the snack.
Silence blinks four times as they watch the old woman lumber toward the bin267Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0HZPAHDAGt
and throw away the food. The one older than Silence, snaps that good children267Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYTYxIVFFAw
should always ask for things, and that their mum, who, must be the old woman,267Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzrOJ3u35je
does not believe that children need to have snacks.
The memory begins to roll away. Silence returns To their267Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEpUIzTBglk
room where they sit stripped of clothing and pride, and remembers how the old267Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjMOsw79D0D
man did267Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1pxmehqFDq
not take anything from Silence, when the boy threw his snack out of the car267Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJFyAUEsicV
window. The old man had told Silence they were very good. Then, the think about267Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi3h3tS1kxy
how the old woman snatched away the orange slices, and threw them in the bin.267Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYeVbN0aHZS
Silence realises that really, they must be very bad.
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