As Silence stares at the door,201Please respect copyright.PENANAYWr16YcklK
another memory echoes in the long hallway. Before they can annotate it, they201Please respect copyright.PENANAFOG6hUvh20
are distracted by the dolls that stand alongside the walls. There are nine201Please respect copyright.PENANAqVLG5J0arQ
dolls, impressive in size and moulded in milk.
The dolls are red of hair that falls down gaunt necks, and on their hands,201Please respect copyright.PENANA0GnOhyk8EK
Silence sees elongated fingers. Silence does not yearn to see the finger where201Please respect copyright.PENANA5yiiF8h7FC
the ring sits. They do not wish to comprehend the dolls further, and so Silence201Please respect copyright.PENANAdbqMeLaUKz
turns away.
In the recollection, Silence is perhaps a child of seven. They stand before201Please respect copyright.PENANAPATXMrHHXo
a door, too slight to reach the white doorbell with the black button. There are201Please respect copyright.PENANAaohoBAi9qK
two other people with Silence. The boy has black hair, and it is messy; he took201Please respect copyright.PENANAQMvAz8eeWU
a nap in the car that had not seemed very restful to Silence. The boy has 201Please respect copyright.PENANApoU6JXMp7L
green eyes that glittered with something that Silence would soon learn201Please respect copyright.PENANAAMptfO32sx
to hate.
The other is an old man. Silence decided he was old when they first met him201Please respect copyright.PENANAT60yBOXVEL
because the man has to walk with a stick. And he was very slow. The man has one201Please respect copyright.PENANAXfnI4V8te7
hand on the suitcase with faded butterfly stickers and the other stretching out201Please respect copyright.PENANA4r5rDvJNYZ
for the bell that Silence is too slight to reach.
Nothing happens inside the redbrick house for a moment, and then the door is201Please respect copyright.PENANAw8gHgvibFK
pulled open. Silence and the boy stare at the woman with milk-like skin, red201Please respect copyright.PENANABcXQi9LSwu
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 when201Please respect copyright.PENANAIMkvDcI0Wz
she spoke to Silence, she did not like children of their so-called gender very201Please respect copyright.PENANAQFbd8j44XL
much.
The old man says a few words to the woman and turns, leaving Silence behind201Please respect copyright.PENANAUH8ixX0dCQ
him to be ushered inside by the woman with milk skin.
Apprehension, then foreign to little Silence, fills Silence like201Please respect copyright.PENANAqiWzhbCQHp
butterflies, and leap around like butterflies do when caught in a net. The201Please respect copyright.PENANAyGmW5UXPNV
butterflies leap ever frantically as sharp vocal urgings, push Silence into a201Please respect copyright.PENANAiQzggSa9eN
room with a mirror with gold trim and two nightstands of mahogany, and a bed201Please respect copyright.PENANAuyljUWaCKX
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 the201Please respect copyright.PENANA2B2xjKv7hD
recollection where they felt hungry. There was someone else in the house with201Please respect copyright.PENANAnBoJTgMLyt
the old woman; another person bigger than Silence. She was milk of skin, but with blonde hair that201Please respect copyright.PENANATmYHmIU7zX
bounced about in curly springs.
Before the old man had left Silence behind, he had given both the boy and201Please respect copyright.PENANAosWpYPCWuw
Silence a snack of popcorn and orange slice, to eat in the car. The boy did not201Please respect copyright.PENANAyAKtpf2Pq3
like oranges and had thrown the four pieces of orange from the window. Silence201Please respect copyright.PENANATZmipjLKkB
did not throw their orange pieces out of201Please respect copyright.PENANA9p91N6uoeC
the window, and the old man told Silence 201Please respect copyright.PENANAZDUJ5Dtj2q
they were very good and the boy was very bad.
Silence walks into the great room where the old woman and the other woman201Please respect copyright.PENANA3E8PUxVOk8
sit in arm chairs and watch the television. The women are watching Shrek.201Please respect copyright.PENANAC1u6EfOQqm
Silence knows they are watching Shrek because there is a green man, a donkey201Please respect copyright.PENANARsKmCXqe24
and a pink dragon.
Silence was not hungry in the car, but now the feel their stomach gurgle.201Please respect copyright.PENANAeTCuRInqva
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 at201Please respect copyright.PENANA77joFL67Gz
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. The201Please respect copyright.PENANA6ireYo5L4q
woman with red hair is on her feet now and stands over Silence, before reaching201Please respect copyright.PENANAZTLhol93OC
down to snatch at the snack.
Silence blinks four times as they watch the old woman lumber toward the bin201Please respect copyright.PENANAGYpMUEJIHd
and throw away the food. The one older than Silence, snaps that good children201Please respect copyright.PENANA7DPGpSRRa4
should always ask for things, and that their mum, who, must be the old woman,201Please respect copyright.PENANAMzfZmvDp62
does not believe that children need to have snacks.
The memory begins to roll away. Silence returns To their201Please respect copyright.PENANA0ZzQYuzGLg
room where they sit stripped of clothing and pride, and remembers how the old201Please respect copyright.PENANAxz0nWdCwdG
man did201Please respect copyright.PENANA2saDbmKMbb
not take anything from Silence, when the boy threw his snack out of the car201Please respect copyright.PENANAMnveSwgARL
window. The old man had told Silence they were very good. Then, the think about201Please respect copyright.PENANAYStiUoRBlN
how the old woman snatched away the orange slices, and threw them in the bin.201Please respect copyright.PENANAImV2pCCjod
Silence realises that really, they must be very bad.
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