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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