As Silence stares at the door,247Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgSAEqtSMpL
another memory echoes in the long hallway. Before they can annotate it, they247Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAVGnzmJPk3
are distracted by the dolls that stand alongside the walls. There are nine247Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD9kBzsDuq3
dolls, impressive in size and moulded in milk.
The dolls are red of hair that falls down gaunt necks, and on their hands,247Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhjXqNxzgrG
Silence sees elongated fingers. Silence does not yearn to see the finger where247Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSEbmM4io2W
the ring sits. They do not wish to comprehend the dolls further, and so Silence247Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmD8Dy1Ady5
turns away.
In the recollection, Silence is perhaps a child of seven. They stand before247Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbNqP2doNRk
a door, too slight to reach the white doorbell with the black button. There are247Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM7tkLsKrok
two other people with Silence. The boy has black hair, and it is messy; he took247Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6mK79hwaOD
a nap in the car that had not seemed very restful to Silence. The boy has 247Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyBjmUQ7zws
green eyes that glittered with something that Silence would soon learn247Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNpNxibEUsW
to hate.
The other is an old man. Silence decided he was old when they first met him247Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi9dDLeGkUZ
because the man has to walk with a stick. And he was very slow. The man has one247Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqjqvrkVftP
hand on the suitcase with faded butterfly stickers and the other stretching out247Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzLCUWqEhPn
for the bell that Silence is too slight to reach.
Nothing happens inside the redbrick house for a moment, and then the door is247Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtEbC9Chxgi
pulled open. Silence and the boy stare at the woman with milk-like skin, red247Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE4yWtQIE5p
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 when247Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSv7XwpvESN
she spoke to Silence, she did not like children of their so-called gender very247Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5q6GWQqB9y
much.
The old man says a few words to the woman and turns, leaving Silence behind247Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA0VfDwh3ln
him to be ushered inside by the woman with milk skin.
Apprehension, then foreign to little Silence, fills Silence like247Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSiaRT7nLiZ
butterflies, and leap around like butterflies do when caught in a net. The247Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBpf2Tbv2sb
butterflies leap ever frantically as sharp vocal urgings, push Silence into a247Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPddoNO3PjL
room with a mirror with gold trim and two nightstands of mahogany, and a bed247Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfvDtPN3Ap4
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 the247Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9UNNksnPxG
recollection where they felt hungry. There was someone else in the house with247Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxXoFLDYpba
the old woman; another person bigger than Silence. She was milk of skin, but with blonde hair that247Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW3hpKxhgMG
bounced about in curly springs.
Before the old man had left Silence behind, he had given both the boy and247Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSAZOohaztF
Silence a snack of popcorn and orange slice, to eat in the car. The boy did not247Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLE1wyrMnwQ
like oranges and had thrown the four pieces of orange from the window. Silence247Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfn001yjcFs
did not throw their orange pieces out of247Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhgbNAp6mtt
the window, and the old man told Silence 247Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhARB9wipwa
they were very good and the boy was very bad.
Silence walks into the great room where the old woman and the other woman247Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxz6NGT16Uf
sit in arm chairs and watch the television. The women are watching Shrek.247Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDozTpATCCf
Silence knows they are watching Shrek because there is a green man, a donkey247Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVi5XzJJRJQ
and a pink dragon.
Silence was not hungry in the car, but now the feel their stomach gurgle.247Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe2qfDEWEz5
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 at247Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7G2McNnYWX
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. The247Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ06Tcsijvc9
woman with red hair is on her feet now and stands over Silence, before reaching247Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfObGt5YTxa
down to snatch at the snack.
Silence blinks four times as they watch the old woman lumber toward the bin247Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtpZ0MVf62E
and throw away the food. The one older than Silence, snaps that good children247Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuHu6Ba0sM5
should always ask for things, and that their mum, who, must be the old woman,247Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaYm1fzCTag
does not believe that children need to have snacks.
The memory begins to roll away. Silence returns To their247Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHr7ZqgLubh
room where they sit stripped of clothing and pride, and remembers how the old247Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcQgq95qbIV
man did247Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3dORHrmcL4
not take anything from Silence, when the boy threw his snack out of the car247Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6SHHxnGWd4
window. The old man had told Silence they were very good. Then, the think about247Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOL29CrexCw
how the old woman snatched away the orange slices, and threw them in the bin.247Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfSPkFFmB8p
Silence realises that really, they must be very bad.
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