As Silence stares at the door,138Please respect copyright.PENANAvZS4rj6YtX
another memory echoes in the long hallway. Before they can annotate it, they138Please respect copyright.PENANAX9uP2KcT8a
are distracted by the dolls that stand alongside the walls. There are nine138Please respect copyright.PENANArlD3W7ZkrA
dolls, impressive in size and moulded in milk.
The dolls are red of hair that falls down gaunt necks, and on their hands,138Please respect copyright.PENANAXWXYuHAehi
Silence sees elongated fingers. Silence does not yearn to see the finger where138Please respect copyright.PENANA6EwgoJQ0wn
the ring sits. They do not wish to comprehend the dolls further, and so Silence138Please respect copyright.PENANAe6BMZbNtXH
turns away.
In the recollection, Silence is perhaps a child of seven. They stand before138Please respect copyright.PENANAxDYGWltUjz
a door, too slight to reach the white doorbell with the black button. There are138Please respect copyright.PENANAZdhGVqidjc
two other people with Silence. The boy has black hair, and it is messy; he took138Please respect copyright.PENANAG1w13EO3wV
a nap in the car that had not seemed very restful to Silence. The boy has 138Please respect copyright.PENANAXsHD98AVlc
green eyes that glittered with something that Silence would soon learn138Please respect copyright.PENANAUK2ITGgJ3x
to hate.
The other is an old man. Silence decided he was old when they first met him138Please respect copyright.PENANAvbi1NWH8R4
because the man has to walk with a stick. And he was very slow. The man has one138Please respect copyright.PENANAaLRYKFNj2D
hand on the suitcase with faded butterfly stickers and the other stretching out138Please respect copyright.PENANAYD3IHDHC8f
for the bell that Silence is too slight to reach.
Nothing happens inside the redbrick house for a moment, and then the door is138Please respect copyright.PENANAwu4srZNugr
pulled open. Silence and the boy stare at the woman with milk-like skin, red138Please respect copyright.PENANAJ2perK5F7U
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 when138Please respect copyright.PENANAamE7NciMfy
she spoke to Silence, she did not like children of their so-called gender very138Please respect copyright.PENANAiJr4zrcjDS
much.
The old man says a few words to the woman and turns, leaving Silence behind138Please respect copyright.PENANAM3NnNwmEFv
him to be ushered inside by the woman with milk skin.
Apprehension, then foreign to little Silence, fills Silence like138Please respect copyright.PENANAh6sPHPLRhO
butterflies, and leap around like butterflies do when caught in a net. The138Please respect copyright.PENANAGGD5Y3YMhL
butterflies leap ever frantically as sharp vocal urgings, push Silence into a138Please respect copyright.PENANAX6smVG4qfq
room with a mirror with gold trim and two nightstands of mahogany, and a bed138Please respect copyright.PENANAUHTPeKFkg5
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 the138Please respect copyright.PENANAbE2HSMx2Ro
recollection where they felt hungry. There was someone else in the house with138Please respect copyright.PENANAoKcmI6Hkez
the old woman; another person bigger than Silence. She was milk of skin, but with blonde hair that138Please respect copyright.PENANAP4sOK7iXuh
bounced about in curly springs.
Before the old man had left Silence behind, he had given both the boy and138Please respect copyright.PENANA6nTcAyFZiV
Silence a snack of popcorn and orange slice, to eat in the car. The boy did not138Please respect copyright.PENANAOYHvwALk22
like oranges and had thrown the four pieces of orange from the window. Silence138Please respect copyright.PENANAxHlW8Vfw2r
did not throw their orange pieces out of138Please respect copyright.PENANAAa7y845jJ1
the window, and the old man told Silence 138Please respect copyright.PENANA01X6acNnf6
they were very good and the boy was very bad.
Silence walks into the great room where the old woman and the other woman138Please respect copyright.PENANArZiDC1SXvB
sit in arm chairs and watch the television. The women are watching Shrek.138Please respect copyright.PENANAXGo0hwgQh5
Silence knows they are watching Shrek because there is a green man, a donkey138Please respect copyright.PENANAlEiarAyp0K
and a pink dragon.
Silence was not hungry in the car, but now the feel their stomach gurgle.138Please respect copyright.PENANAHEyXtKvwqc
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 at138Please respect copyright.PENANAbxZRMzMlC6
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. The138Please respect copyright.PENANAK4dfxsLKvZ
woman with red hair is on her feet now and stands over Silence, before reaching138Please respect copyright.PENANA18SduHwDsl
down to snatch at the snack.
Silence blinks four times as they watch the old woman lumber toward the bin138Please respect copyright.PENANA5mVDOIgMWj
and throw away the food. The one older than Silence, snaps that good children138Please respect copyright.PENANA8Nlywfk5sk
should always ask for things, and that their mum, who, must be the old woman,138Please respect copyright.PENANA2CrTW4eOep
does not believe that children need to have snacks.
The memory begins to roll away. Silence returns To their138Please respect copyright.PENANAdPmF6ulyjV
room where they sit stripped of clothing and pride, and remembers how the old138Please respect copyright.PENANAeEVUbA8pjq
man did138Please respect copyright.PENANAG6sPaSBEFy
not take anything from Silence, when the boy threw his snack out of the car138Please respect copyright.PENANAxv7GUsU1xC
window. The old man had told Silence they were very good. Then, the think about138Please respect copyright.PENANANrRaoiFLsP
how the old woman snatched away the orange slices, and threw them in the bin.138Please respect copyright.PENANAogeZCTHtC2
Silence realises that really, they must be very bad.
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