As Silence stares at the door,314Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7oYHFjgaFl
another memory echoes in the long hallway. Before they can annotate it, they314Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwNUDUGkxE2
are distracted by the dolls that stand alongside the walls. There are nine314Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9XjGlJdLhh
dolls, impressive in size and moulded in milk.
The dolls are red of hair that falls down gaunt necks, and on their hands,314Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbCLgh5iYs1
Silence sees elongated fingers. Silence does not yearn to see the finger where314Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡocmDUyXMb5
the ring sits. They do not wish to comprehend the dolls further, and so Silence314Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDXo0OArI6o
turns away.
In the recollection, Silence is perhaps a child of seven. They stand before314Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIOz6bAo6Xs
a door, too slight to reach the white doorbell with the black button. There are314Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4J8vLRhH8f
two other people with Silence. The boy has black hair, and it is messy; he took314Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7EJx7Zg7z2
a nap in the car that had not seemed very restful to Silence. The boy has 314Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZjLNPfzZuC
green eyes that glittered with something that Silence would soon learn314Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ90TALeT2kn
to hate.
The other is an old man. Silence decided he was old when they first met him314Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUaPnJx0n5d
because the man has to walk with a stick. And he was very slow. The man has one314Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXfM2XST0Bw
hand on the suitcase with faded butterfly stickers and the other stretching out314Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMgzriTOezo
for the bell that Silence is too slight to reach.
Nothing happens inside the redbrick house for a moment, and then the door is314Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDLjOjFt9Bu
pulled open. Silence and the boy stare at the woman with milk-like skin, red314Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0yAFGqyisY
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 when314Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOUMS86F2w2
she spoke to Silence, she did not like children of their so-called gender very314Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsxy3jwjXfr
much.
The old man says a few words to the woman and turns, leaving Silence behind314Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH6hoP4jlAb
him to be ushered inside by the woman with milk skin.
Apprehension, then foreign to little Silence, fills Silence like314Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrewzdtW8t5
butterflies, and leap around like butterflies do when caught in a net. The314Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoaoR3blxsD
butterflies leap ever frantically as sharp vocal urgings, push Silence into a314Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrdS3wKswQy
room with a mirror with gold trim and two nightstands of mahogany, and a bed314Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYZatPuI16p
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 the314Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaPtBa6vUnc
recollection where they felt hungry. There was someone else in the house with314Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4QZIbnWmHr
the old woman; another person bigger than Silence. She was milk of skin, but with blonde hair that314Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnyevtGoz8l
bounced about in curly springs.
Before the old man had left Silence behind, he had given both the boy and314Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmtOLb7BVEs
Silence a snack of popcorn and orange slice, to eat in the car. The boy did not314Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡagmedX7M10
like oranges and had thrown the four pieces of orange from the window. Silence314Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9UBJPXkgeh
did not throw their orange pieces out of314Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMS5zp0Xi6C
the window, and the old man told Silence 314Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK92DgyaqEn
they were very good and the boy was very bad.
Silence walks into the great room where the old woman and the other woman314Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvsQ8Anr23s
sit in arm chairs and watch the television. The women are watching Shrek.314Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsgmX5G8VA2
Silence knows they are watching Shrek because there is a green man, a donkey314Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeLbAKp9Hf6
and a pink dragon.
Silence was not hungry in the car, but now the feel their stomach gurgle.314Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6JED9vPvNU
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 at314Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuLy75v3WL5
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. The314Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡedmhtjIJGJ
woman with red hair is on her feet now and stands over Silence, before reaching314Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5cCjoLsu4t
down to snatch at the snack.
Silence blinks four times as they watch the old woman lumber toward the bin314Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8iZZIow8G9
and throw away the food. The one older than Silence, snaps that good children314Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8VQUUMi1EF
should always ask for things, and that their mum, who, must be the old woman,314Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvjDZwTjhIr
does not believe that children need to have snacks.
The memory begins to roll away. Silence returns To their314Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmtrbHflJ8S
room where they sit stripped of clothing and pride, and remembers how the old314Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAb1mETW01C
man did314Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbWk74hKtWO
not take anything from Silence, when the boy threw his snack out of the car314Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡks4adyYCEZ
window. The old man had told Silence they were very good. Then, the think about314Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBzhzb1204b
how the old woman snatched away the orange slices, and threw them in the bin.314Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvRQjz9qvWR
Silence realises that really, they must be very bad.
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