As Silence stares at the door,175Please respect copyright.PENANAms66Efh3GD
another memory echoes in the long hallway. Before they can annotate it, they175Please respect copyright.PENANAAOI2zVJV9i
are distracted by the dolls that stand alongside the walls. There are nine175Please respect copyright.PENANAUHRAsiUbdi
dolls, impressive in size and moulded in milk.
The dolls are red of hair that falls down gaunt necks, and on their hands,175Please respect copyright.PENANAHgIMTJnT3y
Silence sees elongated fingers. Silence does not yearn to see the finger where175Please respect copyright.PENANAiP7Q7JerDR
the ring sits. They do not wish to comprehend the dolls further, and so Silence175Please respect copyright.PENANA7CZlHrmUm8
turns away.
In the recollection, Silence is perhaps a child of seven. They stand before175Please respect copyright.PENANAHAQiagsL3u
a door, too slight to reach the white doorbell with the black button. There are175Please respect copyright.PENANADlfqwJyMJO
two other people with Silence. The boy has black hair, and it is messy; he took175Please respect copyright.PENANAF1mKn28nK3
a nap in the car that had not seemed very restful to Silence. The boy has 175Please respect copyright.PENANAFrPJGBbvBv
green eyes that glittered with something that Silence would soon learn175Please respect copyright.PENANAJAMi5VkPDb
to hate.
The other is an old man. Silence decided he was old when they first met him175Please respect copyright.PENANAXNOhLnulee
because the man has to walk with a stick. And he was very slow. The man has one175Please respect copyright.PENANA8oTj0ajQFU
hand on the suitcase with faded butterfly stickers and the other stretching out175Please respect copyright.PENANARR2rKAWIYV
for the bell that Silence is too slight to reach.
Nothing happens inside the redbrick house for a moment, and then the door is175Please respect copyright.PENANAVf9vreMSPc
pulled open. Silence and the boy stare at the woman with milk-like skin, red175Please respect copyright.PENANAQq7nx36s80
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 when175Please respect copyright.PENANANUw8Nu9VHH
she spoke to Silence, she did not like children of their so-called gender very175Please respect copyright.PENANA9ZhC7Q5pwI
much.
The old man says a few words to the woman and turns, leaving Silence behind175Please respect copyright.PENANAkBB6jX6x1J
him to be ushered inside by the woman with milk skin.
Apprehension, then foreign to little Silence, fills Silence like175Please respect copyright.PENANA7NtcvP2lsv
butterflies, and leap around like butterflies do when caught in a net. The175Please respect copyright.PENANAjVFyAkphhn
butterflies leap ever frantically as sharp vocal urgings, push Silence into a175Please respect copyright.PENANAcwPuRaatiY
room with a mirror with gold trim and two nightstands of mahogany, and a bed175Please respect copyright.PENANAMRO3k3AyMc
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 the175Please respect copyright.PENANARib3IRbA3J
recollection where they felt hungry. There was someone else in the house with175Please respect copyright.PENANAZFKTNgnJtD
the old woman; another person bigger than Silence. She was milk of skin, but with blonde hair that175Please respect copyright.PENANAJW1YG9UcQP
bounced about in curly springs.
Before the old man had left Silence behind, he had given both the boy and175Please respect copyright.PENANAJMQJCi3lKe
Silence a snack of popcorn and orange slice, to eat in the car. The boy did not175Please respect copyright.PENANAvPy1uROHTF
like oranges and had thrown the four pieces of orange from the window. Silence175Please respect copyright.PENANAFuMM2xMdlW
did not throw their orange pieces out of175Please respect copyright.PENANAtl3YlBwxfZ
the window, and the old man told Silence 175Please respect copyright.PENANAVOBNWLkXa1
they were very good and the boy was very bad.
Silence walks into the great room where the old woman and the other woman175Please respect copyright.PENANAof3TYfviu3
sit in arm chairs and watch the television. The women are watching Shrek.175Please respect copyright.PENANAo7SqlJjxsq
Silence knows they are watching Shrek because there is a green man, a donkey175Please respect copyright.PENANA84tk8jb8f6
and a pink dragon.
Silence was not hungry in the car, but now the feel their stomach gurgle.175Please respect copyright.PENANAvptPIvoTKU
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 at175Please respect copyright.PENANAT5SCElGiip
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. The175Please respect copyright.PENANAMuunuDHkTR
woman with red hair is on her feet now and stands over Silence, before reaching175Please respect copyright.PENANA9CGhCS8MXi
down to snatch at the snack.
Silence blinks four times as they watch the old woman lumber toward the bin175Please respect copyright.PENANA1DSOrpRbMx
and throw away the food. The one older than Silence, snaps that good children175Please respect copyright.PENANAVKfe1bdN49
should always ask for things, and that their mum, who, must be the old woman,175Please respect copyright.PENANAPeITMLjnJ6
does not believe that children need to have snacks.
The memory begins to roll away. Silence returns To their175Please respect copyright.PENANA8x99jmPkB1
room where they sit stripped of clothing and pride, and remembers how the old175Please respect copyright.PENANAm9ayiKQiaY
man did175Please respect copyright.PENANAlxkXSFwbl7
not take anything from Silence, when the boy threw his snack out of the car175Please respect copyright.PENANADAA1e5xGNs
window. The old man had told Silence they were very good. Then, the think about175Please respect copyright.PENANAHAA6kuOoqL
how the old woman snatched away the orange slices, and threw them in the bin.175Please respect copyright.PENANAghW5Wuy4OJ
Silence realises that really, they must be very bad.
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