As Silence stares at the door,126Please respect copyright.PENANAnJxCEB9S1P
another memory echoes in the long hallway. Before they can annotate it, they126Please respect copyright.PENANAr9uVnHB6XS
are distracted by the dolls that stand alongside the walls. There are nine126Please respect copyright.PENANAkMPpJQwQxK
dolls, impressive in size and moulded in milk.
The dolls are red of hair that falls down gaunt necks, and on their hands,126Please respect copyright.PENANAwj41HEJr1D
Silence sees elongated fingers. Silence does not yearn to see the finger where126Please respect copyright.PENANAa6oDOGOrKW
the ring sits. They do not wish to comprehend the dolls further, and so Silence126Please respect copyright.PENANANnPcPpS8ke
turns away.
In the recollection, Silence is perhaps a child of seven. They stand before126Please respect copyright.PENANAC3e0VTy9dy
a door, too slight to reach the white doorbell with the black button. There are126Please respect copyright.PENANAMzgx8vOZQZ
two other people with Silence. The boy has black hair, and it is messy; he took126Please respect copyright.PENANAmjPr5uIBun
a nap in the car that had not seemed very restful to Silence. The boy has 126Please respect copyright.PENANAqOpN1kfCPW
green eyes that glittered with something that Silence would soon learn126Please respect copyright.PENANA83YYVrOlcU
to hate.
The other is an old man. Silence decided he was old when they first met him126Please respect copyright.PENANAxC0gVI2L2m
because the man has to walk with a stick. And he was very slow. The man has one126Please respect copyright.PENANAfDRqbv2Ass
hand on the suitcase with faded butterfly stickers and the other stretching out126Please respect copyright.PENANA3yENUvUoY9
for the bell that Silence is too slight to reach.
Nothing happens inside the redbrick house for a moment, and then the door is126Please respect copyright.PENANAUl9CN69cGI
pulled open. Silence and the boy stare at the woman with milk-like skin, red126Please respect copyright.PENANA9SZOppMDa6
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 when126Please respect copyright.PENANAnTxRAsPO9L
she spoke to Silence, she did not like children of their so-called gender very126Please respect copyright.PENANAlcpNuPJjjt
much.
The old man says a few words to the woman and turns, leaving Silence behind126Please respect copyright.PENANAHEy0LKBDVt
him to be ushered inside by the woman with milk skin.
Apprehension, then foreign to little Silence, fills Silence like126Please respect copyright.PENANALzcpv9FMWu
butterflies, and leap around like butterflies do when caught in a net. The126Please respect copyright.PENANArUod6loiBg
butterflies leap ever frantically as sharp vocal urgings, push Silence into a126Please respect copyright.PENANAfV0rnTvrGU
room with a mirror with gold trim and two nightstands of mahogany, and a bed126Please respect copyright.PENANA1ExshWKkgR
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 the126Please respect copyright.PENANAga13SA9lO9
recollection where they felt hungry. There was someone else in the house with126Please respect copyright.PENANAMlqafDf655
the old woman; another person bigger than Silence. She was milk of skin, but with blonde hair that126Please respect copyright.PENANAa9lSE4ZwdS
bounced about in curly springs.
Before the old man had left Silence behind, he had given both the boy and126Please respect copyright.PENANAhjhjLJX6DZ
Silence a snack of popcorn and orange slice, to eat in the car. The boy did not126Please respect copyright.PENANAUVxSnVcEyt
like oranges and had thrown the four pieces of orange from the window. Silence126Please respect copyright.PENANAVfjtkexp1K
did not throw their orange pieces out of126Please respect copyright.PENANAtJlnyW1wtl
the window, and the old man told Silence 126Please respect copyright.PENANAirMWO5BLl1
they were very good and the boy was very bad.
Silence walks into the great room where the old woman and the other woman126Please respect copyright.PENANAPr5oAdhvcW
sit in arm chairs and watch the television. The women are watching Shrek.126Please respect copyright.PENANAKpXNP9u7UN
Silence knows they are watching Shrek because there is a green man, a donkey126Please respect copyright.PENANAkLcgk2Do5p
and a pink dragon.
Silence was not hungry in the car, but now the feel their stomach gurgle.126Please respect copyright.PENANAlEEUwOX88w
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 at126Please respect copyright.PENANAbEoA86y21z
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. The126Please respect copyright.PENANAWE5g0VCtuc
woman with red hair is on her feet now and stands over Silence, before reaching126Please respect copyright.PENANAUgcAk5t3K9
down to snatch at the snack.
Silence blinks four times as they watch the old woman lumber toward the bin126Please respect copyright.PENANADBQCSIGJVi
and throw away the food. The one older than Silence, snaps that good children126Please respect copyright.PENANAyGyk9E5yQv
should always ask for things, and that their mum, who, must be the old woman,126Please respect copyright.PENANAOXqc3Fb9wl
does not believe that children need to have snacks.
The memory begins to roll away. Silence returns To their126Please respect copyright.PENANAJBKbZTQOrI
room where they sit stripped of clothing and pride, and remembers how the old126Please respect copyright.PENANAtAa1lbCevU
man did126Please respect copyright.PENANAa269Fp3nVq
not take anything from Silence, when the boy threw his snack out of the car126Please respect copyright.PENANAAZYYOq4vGn
window. The old man had told Silence they were very good. Then, the think about126Please respect copyright.PENANACuBK3manyb
how the old woman snatched away the orange slices, and threw them in the bin.126Please respect copyright.PENANAkrRuYlwPlQ
Silence realises that really, they must be very bad.
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