As Silence stares at the door,177Please respect copyright.PENANAMo0fpWT7g3
another memory echoes in the long hallway. Before they can annotate it, they177Please respect copyright.PENANA1nbEm1Zgdi
are distracted by the dolls that stand alongside the walls. There are nine177Please respect copyright.PENANAEy7HpKgzJF
dolls, impressive in size and moulded in milk.
The dolls are red of hair that falls down gaunt necks, and on their hands,177Please respect copyright.PENANAiLbirPUrl0
Silence sees elongated fingers. Silence does not yearn to see the finger where177Please respect copyright.PENANAg9oZ9IFKR4
the ring sits. They do not wish to comprehend the dolls further, and so Silence177Please respect copyright.PENANAcqFgbX2fIb
turns away.
In the recollection, Silence is perhaps a child of seven. They stand before177Please respect copyright.PENANAn3Zq174214
a door, too slight to reach the white doorbell with the black button. There are177Please respect copyright.PENANAzCwameDASy
two other people with Silence. The boy has black hair, and it is messy; he took177Please respect copyright.PENANA5NqolEgDtm
a nap in the car that had not seemed very restful to Silence. The boy has 177Please respect copyright.PENANAVUHFEsh5gD
green eyes that glittered with something that Silence would soon learn177Please respect copyright.PENANAGR6XcFy47Y
to hate.
The other is an old man. Silence decided he was old when they first met him177Please respect copyright.PENANAjbEnGeybkk
because the man has to walk with a stick. And he was very slow. The man has one177Please respect copyright.PENANA4zRj5UfunZ
hand on the suitcase with faded butterfly stickers and the other stretching out177Please respect copyright.PENANAjCYdJxsAqg
for the bell that Silence is too slight to reach.
Nothing happens inside the redbrick house for a moment, and then the door is177Please respect copyright.PENANAT95gDa0aer
pulled open. Silence and the boy stare at the woman with milk-like skin, red177Please respect copyright.PENANAW634gLdTj1
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 when177Please respect copyright.PENANALOYvJNxkyy
she spoke to Silence, she did not like children of their so-called gender very177Please respect copyright.PENANAAzsK5I5dzN
much.
The old man says a few words to the woman and turns, leaving Silence behind177Please respect copyright.PENANAPLKOSOnV3j
him to be ushered inside by the woman with milk skin.
Apprehension, then foreign to little Silence, fills Silence like177Please respect copyright.PENANArKDIXHxZCZ
butterflies, and leap around like butterflies do when caught in a net. The177Please respect copyright.PENANArZTIUiZQRl
butterflies leap ever frantically as sharp vocal urgings, push Silence into a177Please respect copyright.PENANArURcYJDuGK
room with a mirror with gold trim and two nightstands of mahogany, and a bed177Please respect copyright.PENANA9UZWxBxzNo
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 the177Please respect copyright.PENANAC2H7DWCfQT
recollection where they felt hungry. There was someone else in the house with177Please respect copyright.PENANANRhBTBpUjd
the old woman; another person bigger than Silence. She was milk of skin, but with blonde hair that177Please respect copyright.PENANAYTy4tuTndF
bounced about in curly springs.
Before the old man had left Silence behind, he had given both the boy and177Please respect copyright.PENANA0qKMeaDPcN
Silence a snack of popcorn and orange slice, to eat in the car. The boy did not177Please respect copyright.PENANAyj4kcTJxgB
like oranges and had thrown the four pieces of orange from the window. Silence177Please respect copyright.PENANASpaQcKzh4f
did not throw their orange pieces out of177Please respect copyright.PENANAFOlYgLGUol
the window, and the old man told Silence 177Please respect copyright.PENANAqvEKRIqfto
they were very good and the boy was very bad.
Silence walks into the great room where the old woman and the other woman177Please respect copyright.PENANAMudvnI8qm5
sit in arm chairs and watch the television. The women are watching Shrek.177Please respect copyright.PENANA1By7b0IZI3
Silence knows they are watching Shrek because there is a green man, a donkey177Please respect copyright.PENANAx7HTuoBhfH
and a pink dragon.
Silence was not hungry in the car, but now the feel their stomach gurgle.177Please respect copyright.PENANAt4LflMyn5Z
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 at177Please respect copyright.PENANACuwvfvueF9
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. The177Please respect copyright.PENANAEMCdOcJyxR
woman with red hair is on her feet now and stands over Silence, before reaching177Please respect copyright.PENANALaUQTyKmei
down to snatch at the snack.
Silence blinks four times as they watch the old woman lumber toward the bin177Please respect copyright.PENANAHnnQs4pLVg
and throw away the food. The one older than Silence, snaps that good children177Please respect copyright.PENANASUnKxE3PDr
should always ask for things, and that their mum, who, must be the old woman,177Please respect copyright.PENANATuiRvqAVF3
does not believe that children need to have snacks.
The memory begins to roll away. Silence returns To their177Please respect copyright.PENANA7OM0DCNucP
room where they sit stripped of clothing and pride, and remembers how the old177Please respect copyright.PENANAKv0LIzzxaB
man did177Please respect copyright.PENANA2PJPeC84Oz
not take anything from Silence, when the boy threw his snack out of the car177Please respect copyright.PENANAsxRNWUDFe5
window. The old man had told Silence they were very good. Then, the think about177Please respect copyright.PENANAFsVJEmrs9U
how the old woman snatched away the orange slices, and threw them in the bin.177Please respect copyright.PENANA0Qm4vuczRD
Silence realises that really, they must be very bad.
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