As Silence stares at the door,139Please respect copyright.PENANAkBOXVTDgh7
another memory echoes in the long hallway. Before they can annotate it, they139Please respect copyright.PENANArM89ZxZAOL
are distracted by the dolls that stand alongside the walls. There are nine139Please respect copyright.PENANABnhYoHoj4v
dolls, impressive in size and moulded in milk.
The dolls are red of hair that falls down gaunt necks, and on their hands,139Please respect copyright.PENANAoD9iuzvh8r
Silence sees elongated fingers. Silence does not yearn to see the finger where139Please respect copyright.PENANAcuS2IP6hOO
the ring sits. They do not wish to comprehend the dolls further, and so Silence139Please respect copyright.PENANAxlRJE9F5Mg
turns away.
In the recollection, Silence is perhaps a child of seven. They stand before139Please respect copyright.PENANA1kk1ZcyLYF
a door, too slight to reach the white doorbell with the black button. There are139Please respect copyright.PENANAMgrDBuRait
two other people with Silence. The boy has black hair, and it is messy; he took139Please respect copyright.PENANARE8Ug2QXJn
a nap in the car that had not seemed very restful to Silence. The boy has 139Please respect copyright.PENANAZtPwROon4q
green eyes that glittered with something that Silence would soon learn139Please respect copyright.PENANAQMVoEQ27U6
to hate.
The other is an old man. Silence decided he was old when they first met him139Please respect copyright.PENANAgCXfZzqT0r
because the man has to walk with a stick. And he was very slow. The man has one139Please respect copyright.PENANAgfg7YsO7mf
hand on the suitcase with faded butterfly stickers and the other stretching out139Please respect copyright.PENANAcsBidWS9FR
for the bell that Silence is too slight to reach.
Nothing happens inside the redbrick house for a moment, and then the door is139Please respect copyright.PENANAjxdh8OGiG7
pulled open. Silence and the boy stare at the woman with milk-like skin, red139Please respect copyright.PENANAvI6oCM3keV
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 when139Please respect copyright.PENANAlBxcLD4dAX
she spoke to Silence, she did not like children of their so-called gender very139Please respect copyright.PENANAa7XOznoVou
much.
The old man says a few words to the woman and turns, leaving Silence behind139Please respect copyright.PENANA5aoVcDjpYE
him to be ushered inside by the woman with milk skin.
Apprehension, then foreign to little Silence, fills Silence like139Please respect copyright.PENANAjFIYhQPjgq
butterflies, and leap around like butterflies do when caught in a net. The139Please respect copyright.PENANAMHqKuj2mt8
butterflies leap ever frantically as sharp vocal urgings, push Silence into a139Please respect copyright.PENANAGEE3guBNk3
room with a mirror with gold trim and two nightstands of mahogany, and a bed139Please respect copyright.PENANAUyuZZji0Sz
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 the139Please respect copyright.PENANAiXqJxlCFxk
recollection where they felt hungry. There was someone else in the house with139Please respect copyright.PENANArcdiN9O5Uv
the old woman; another person bigger than Silence. She was milk of skin, but with blonde hair that139Please respect copyright.PENANAxdfOE4s0j3
bounced about in curly springs.
Before the old man had left Silence behind, he had given both the boy and139Please respect copyright.PENANAgR5kndsD4J
Silence a snack of popcorn and orange slice, to eat in the car. The boy did not139Please respect copyright.PENANAOdXIXbLtMi
like oranges and had thrown the four pieces of orange from the window. Silence139Please respect copyright.PENANA7UD9jtJfQw
did not throw their orange pieces out of139Please respect copyright.PENANAaEtNl0wWyc
the window, and the old man told Silence 139Please respect copyright.PENANAEeDYH2MeKk
they were very good and the boy was very bad.
Silence walks into the great room where the old woman and the other woman139Please respect copyright.PENANAblVBJnmcXU
sit in arm chairs and watch the television. The women are watching Shrek.139Please respect copyright.PENANAwerWJVMlFc
Silence knows they are watching Shrek because there is a green man, a donkey139Please respect copyright.PENANA4gay4PZufU
and a pink dragon.
Silence was not hungry in the car, but now the feel their stomach gurgle.139Please respect copyright.PENANA3l44dzUU5E
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 at139Please respect copyright.PENANA4i7wyILc3t
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. The139Please respect copyright.PENANADX0VGvaxtc
woman with red hair is on her feet now and stands over Silence, before reaching139Please respect copyright.PENANAfCXRxWJB7o
down to snatch at the snack.
Silence blinks four times as they watch the old woman lumber toward the bin139Please respect copyright.PENANADRgAUZOefK
and throw away the food. The one older than Silence, snaps that good children139Please respect copyright.PENANA8rmGlixG0f
should always ask for things, and that their mum, who, must be the old woman,139Please respect copyright.PENANAhHigmxtgMV
does not believe that children need to have snacks.
The memory begins to roll away. Silence returns To their139Please respect copyright.PENANAnBGivLdKJr
room where they sit stripped of clothing and pride, and remembers how the old139Please respect copyright.PENANA8TBZbXo3KB
man did139Please respect copyright.PENANA5TYAkTJDIE
not take anything from Silence, when the boy threw his snack out of the car139Please respect copyright.PENANAmIO6U1fx0T
window. The old man had told Silence they were very good. Then, the think about139Please respect copyright.PENANAEEJviuqXz8
how the old woman snatched away the orange slices, and threw them in the bin.139Please respect copyright.PENANABt6KoG51Bb
Silence realises that really, they must be very bad.
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