As Silence stares at the door,222Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjHEiQkFVPc
another memory echoes in the long hallway. Before they can annotate it, they222Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbF8jVnqMxp
are distracted by the dolls that stand alongside the walls. There are nine222Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvWqVit6hqk
dolls, impressive in size and moulded in milk.
The dolls are red of hair that falls down gaunt necks, and on their hands,222Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlIdLVwAfgn
Silence sees elongated fingers. Silence does not yearn to see the finger where222Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡneDOBRx1nh
the ring sits. They do not wish to comprehend the dolls further, and so Silence222Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwfUQ9pB93t
turns away.
In the recollection, Silence is perhaps a child of seven. They stand before222Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk7fwa6AKlf
a door, too slight to reach the white doorbell with the black button. There are222Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlk65AulIvo
two other people with Silence. The boy has black hair, and it is messy; he took222Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOXcW4jfJlF
a nap in the car that had not seemed very restful to Silence. The boy has 222Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5uMe4zVpAx
green eyes that glittered with something that Silence would soon learn222Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡziNDtlFULD
to hate.
The other is an old man. Silence decided he was old when they first met him222Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzpwZKSUI0X
because the man has to walk with a stick. And he was very slow. The man has one222Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOtFNFl3xcd
hand on the suitcase with faded butterfly stickers and the other stretching out222Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIGy7AkKyLt
for the bell that Silence is too slight to reach.
Nothing happens inside the redbrick house for a moment, and then the door is222Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZRMaW8FSJC
pulled open. Silence and the boy stare at the woman with milk-like skin, red222Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe1C97d8Ei0
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 when222Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR40khnC6QK
she spoke to Silence, she did not like children of their so-called gender very222Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE7TnOvsJz6
much.
The old man says a few words to the woman and turns, leaving Silence behind222Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMgPjxZ1RP4
him to be ushered inside by the woman with milk skin.
Apprehension, then foreign to little Silence, fills Silence like222Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBmmDzsPAN2
butterflies, and leap around like butterflies do when caught in a net. The222Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwGtRXx9rcG
butterflies leap ever frantically as sharp vocal urgings, push Silence into a222Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡioZsjGxSqs
room with a mirror with gold trim and two nightstands of mahogany, and a bed222Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSPNSlZRTPp
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 the222Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9H34tnEjhv
recollection where they felt hungry. There was someone else in the house with222Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsfOOoTNfRU
the old woman; another person bigger than Silence. She was milk of skin, but with blonde hair that222Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3ICRtcnvyh
bounced about in curly springs.
Before the old man had left Silence behind, he had given both the boy and222Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHvlERa26Cd
Silence a snack of popcorn and orange slice, to eat in the car. The boy did not222Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGBfdaCMyQU
like oranges and had thrown the four pieces of orange from the window. Silence222Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNpamfFdWft
did not throw their orange pieces out of222Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡziQSYpjIKh
the window, and the old man told Silence 222Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkPDXDiBQQ1
they were very good and the boy was very bad.
Silence walks into the great room where the old woman and the other woman222Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4cZDaNOGgW
sit in arm chairs and watch the television. The women are watching Shrek.222Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡunGGZdOtOh
Silence knows they are watching Shrek because there is a green man, a donkey222Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡywQfmP1Fit
and a pink dragon.
Silence was not hungry in the car, but now the feel their stomach gurgle.222Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMu8KzJ7MwF
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 at222Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlhThgPdy3E
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. The222Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrab9JW9UMC
woman with red hair is on her feet now and stands over Silence, before reaching222Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡERUDlny3yX
down to snatch at the snack.
Silence blinks four times as they watch the old woman lumber toward the bin222Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu96i5BfzHG
and throw away the food. The one older than Silence, snaps that good children222Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4Hv6Rjhkbu
should always ask for things, and that their mum, who, must be the old woman,222Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnVpSay1UNa
does not believe that children need to have snacks.
The memory begins to roll away. Silence returns To their222Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF1PYN0APhQ
room where they sit stripped of clothing and pride, and remembers how the old222Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡycT7Oa1PMS
man did222Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWAmSI5TWVJ
not take anything from Silence, when the boy threw his snack out of the car222Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBXdWtWVWZg
window. The old man had told Silence they were very good. Then, the think about222Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOAt5ahGrH0
how the old woman snatched away the orange slices, and threw them in the bin.222Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmDbXl1tAje
Silence realises that really, they must be very bad.
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