As Silence stares at the door,131Please respect copyright.PENANAnNmUQIR1c5
another memory echoes in the long hallway. Before they can annotate it, they131Please respect copyright.PENANAm6RgcRgm8B
are distracted by the dolls that stand alongside the walls. There are nine131Please respect copyright.PENANAXsbruDizsd
dolls, impressive in size and moulded in milk.
The dolls are red of hair that falls down gaunt necks, and on their hands,131Please respect copyright.PENANACl3vRWuttn
Silence sees elongated fingers. Silence does not yearn to see the finger where131Please respect copyright.PENANAsCjaXYDEVH
the ring sits. They do not wish to comprehend the dolls further, and so Silence131Please respect copyright.PENANAYUN2bntNI7
turns away.
In the recollection, Silence is perhaps a child of seven. They stand before131Please respect copyright.PENANA2Ajgkl00CI
a door, too slight to reach the white doorbell with the black button. There are131Please respect copyright.PENANAzvUfoODPB0
two other people with Silence. The boy has black hair, and it is messy; he took131Please respect copyright.PENANAaknxwJaOVx
a nap in the car that had not seemed very restful to Silence. The boy has 131Please respect copyright.PENANAZ6HQjyLMhi
green eyes that glittered with something that Silence would soon learn131Please respect copyright.PENANAMCbkxaXp1k
to hate.
The other is an old man. Silence decided he was old when they first met him131Please respect copyright.PENANA3VpwpWw90U
because the man has to walk with a stick. And he was very slow. The man has one131Please respect copyright.PENANAVTasxS23mg
hand on the suitcase with faded butterfly stickers and the other stretching out131Please respect copyright.PENANA5BSUb6AhSB
for the bell that Silence is too slight to reach.
Nothing happens inside the redbrick house for a moment, and then the door is131Please respect copyright.PENANApiViVvzAyN
pulled open. Silence and the boy stare at the woman with milk-like skin, red131Please respect copyright.PENANAsmwzltWxlj
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 when131Please respect copyright.PENANA0wH3GAEPNl
she spoke to Silence, she did not like children of their so-called gender very131Please respect copyright.PENANAXQXkYkphd8
much.
The old man says a few words to the woman and turns, leaving Silence behind131Please respect copyright.PENANAEsM8fgj58P
him to be ushered inside by the woman with milk skin.
Apprehension, then foreign to little Silence, fills Silence like131Please respect copyright.PENANAIKcQEVWBD4
butterflies, and leap around like butterflies do when caught in a net. The131Please respect copyright.PENANA6YDnPVOBq2
butterflies leap ever frantically as sharp vocal urgings, push Silence into a131Please respect copyright.PENANAcqrAdLzwZx
room with a mirror with gold trim and two nightstands of mahogany, and a bed131Please respect copyright.PENANAFTvMYMVcvs
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 the131Please respect copyright.PENANASANggxOvBS
recollection where they felt hungry. There was someone else in the house with131Please respect copyright.PENANAphirpo89P0
the old woman; another person bigger than Silence. She was milk of skin, but with blonde hair that131Please respect copyright.PENANAr8D2u0idEH
bounced about in curly springs.
Before the old man had left Silence behind, he had given both the boy and131Please respect copyright.PENANAOR3YhuyUoc
Silence a snack of popcorn and orange slice, to eat in the car. The boy did not131Please respect copyright.PENANAS85TQp0aL8
like oranges and had thrown the four pieces of orange from the window. Silence131Please respect copyright.PENANARqVNzUiidA
did not throw their orange pieces out of131Please respect copyright.PENANAo76jYB4Oe4
the window, and the old man told Silence 131Please respect copyright.PENANA3gXFO7q1O2
they were very good and the boy was very bad.
Silence walks into the great room where the old woman and the other woman131Please respect copyright.PENANAo3kwr14fcO
sit in arm chairs and watch the television. The women are watching Shrek.131Please respect copyright.PENANArCJ24AsKyH
Silence knows they are watching Shrek because there is a green man, a donkey131Please respect copyright.PENANAeCDlO8QNNy
and a pink dragon.
Silence was not hungry in the car, but now the feel their stomach gurgle.131Please respect copyright.PENANAVLMko05pOj
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 at131Please respect copyright.PENANANGxpLRRUHr
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. The131Please respect copyright.PENANAo445ESjLBG
woman with red hair is on her feet now and stands over Silence, before reaching131Please respect copyright.PENANAvIi7K7pqqQ
down to snatch at the snack.
Silence blinks four times as they watch the old woman lumber toward the bin131Please respect copyright.PENANALRH3XGAlcG
and throw away the food. The one older than Silence, snaps that good children131Please respect copyright.PENANAK5jet2NSQT
should always ask for things, and that their mum, who, must be the old woman,131Please respect copyright.PENANA1wfzt7VkjN
does not believe that children need to have snacks.
The memory begins to roll away. Silence returns To their131Please respect copyright.PENANAYg3PgEdlj2
room where they sit stripped of clothing and pride, and remembers how the old131Please respect copyright.PENANAikFIkj7vc6
man did131Please respect copyright.PENANAZL1icO6Q9S
not take anything from Silence, when the boy threw his snack out of the car131Please respect copyright.PENANAfmkIDA4KcI
window. The old man had told Silence they were very good. Then, the think about131Please respect copyright.PENANAjGPjSRHLZH
how the old woman snatched away the orange slices, and threw them in the bin.131Please respect copyright.PENANAJOAYRgQEtW
Silence realises that really, they must be very bad.
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