As Silence stares at the door,140Please respect copyright.PENANA5mnBXwq93w
another memory echoes in the long hallway. Before they can annotate it, they140Please respect copyright.PENANAJvxDEXvsiL
are distracted by the dolls that stand alongside the walls. There are nine140Please respect copyright.PENANAwuLVw6v3bo
dolls, impressive in size and moulded in milk.
The dolls are red of hair that falls down gaunt necks, and on their hands,140Please respect copyright.PENANA81D6J841y4
Silence sees elongated fingers. Silence does not yearn to see the finger where140Please respect copyright.PENANAK8dsSlsC5y
the ring sits. They do not wish to comprehend the dolls further, and so Silence140Please respect copyright.PENANAxnIvSvJvez
turns away.
In the recollection, Silence is perhaps a child of seven. They stand before140Please respect copyright.PENANAvdQ4Jx00E0
a door, too slight to reach the white doorbell with the black button. There are140Please respect copyright.PENANA5sJRhvhI45
two other people with Silence. The boy has black hair, and it is messy; he took140Please respect copyright.PENANAj6o0xjcKxS
a nap in the car that had not seemed very restful to Silence. The boy has 140Please respect copyright.PENANAUJFWuMWOBU
green eyes that glittered with something that Silence would soon learn140Please respect copyright.PENANAnKO3xgP4OM
to hate.
The other is an old man. Silence decided he was old when they first met him140Please respect copyright.PENANAc9JV1G40O1
because the man has to walk with a stick. And he was very slow. The man has one140Please respect copyright.PENANATyBIM3MCw6
hand on the suitcase with faded butterfly stickers and the other stretching out140Please respect copyright.PENANAK2Fhc9Boap
for the bell that Silence is too slight to reach.
Nothing happens inside the redbrick house for a moment, and then the door is140Please respect copyright.PENANALyH15RdGym
pulled open. Silence and the boy stare at the woman with milk-like skin, red140Please respect copyright.PENANA3DqLsjbwPh
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 when140Please respect copyright.PENANAXe9T9kn4dV
she spoke to Silence, she did not like children of their so-called gender very140Please respect copyright.PENANAc6WXHrVUdZ
much.
The old man says a few words to the woman and turns, leaving Silence behind140Please respect copyright.PENANAXYziDnqgzd
him to be ushered inside by the woman with milk skin.
Apprehension, then foreign to little Silence, fills Silence like140Please respect copyright.PENANAkfXoVmDvuJ
butterflies, and leap around like butterflies do when caught in a net. The140Please respect copyright.PENANA5lrEFK95bE
butterflies leap ever frantically as sharp vocal urgings, push Silence into a140Please respect copyright.PENANALgfAvFB6L2
room with a mirror with gold trim and two nightstands of mahogany, and a bed140Please respect copyright.PENANAnOkZaLnAUf
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 the140Please respect copyright.PENANA5bhYcYeH4m
recollection where they felt hungry. There was someone else in the house with140Please respect copyright.PENANAxfhvBUQesD
the old woman; another person bigger than Silence. She was milk of skin, but with blonde hair that140Please respect copyright.PENANAz9uYvhXvlU
bounced about in curly springs.
Before the old man had left Silence behind, he had given both the boy and140Please respect copyright.PENANABNsxHWwVwX
Silence a snack of popcorn and orange slice, to eat in the car. The boy did not140Please respect copyright.PENANAYVmSbQDy0H
like oranges and had thrown the four pieces of orange from the window. Silence140Please respect copyright.PENANATZdRaeudiZ
did not throw their orange pieces out of140Please respect copyright.PENANAC5u69bUtUK
the window, and the old man told Silence 140Please respect copyright.PENANAc9FhHVaUNJ
they were very good and the boy was very bad.
Silence walks into the great room where the old woman and the other woman140Please respect copyright.PENANAgArg0FnpPI
sit in arm chairs and watch the television. The women are watching Shrek.140Please respect copyright.PENANAVBQCf6NNjz
Silence knows they are watching Shrek because there is a green man, a donkey140Please respect copyright.PENANAgdomWxGJua
and a pink dragon.
Silence was not hungry in the car, but now the feel their stomach gurgle.140Please respect copyright.PENANAA2lCn8hK0E
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 at140Please respect copyright.PENANABxm116ONG6
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. The140Please respect copyright.PENANAAthu4RUIyK
woman with red hair is on her feet now and stands over Silence, before reaching140Please respect copyright.PENANA4UdG9mMTaJ
down to snatch at the snack.
Silence blinks four times as they watch the old woman lumber toward the bin140Please respect copyright.PENANAEzeeUtVswF
and throw away the food. The one older than Silence, snaps that good children140Please respect copyright.PENANANOV8PNXO2j
should always ask for things, and that their mum, who, must be the old woman,140Please respect copyright.PENANAmuGkjhXebe
does not believe that children need to have snacks.
The memory begins to roll away. Silence returns To their140Please respect copyright.PENANAJaIFV4AuN5
room where they sit stripped of clothing and pride, and remembers how the old140Please respect copyright.PENANA7uf0Rjzluc
man did140Please respect copyright.PENANAbpWXcZie9x
not take anything from Silence, when the boy threw his snack out of the car140Please respect copyright.PENANAgpeM8DVqqn
window. The old man had told Silence they were very good. Then, the think about140Please respect copyright.PENANAUMxWB5bIMy
how the old woman snatched away the orange slices, and threw them in the bin.140Please respect copyright.PENANA0ba56ctv3R
Silence realises that really, they must be very bad.
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