As Silence stares at the door,226Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuyPlpJVht5
another memory echoes in the long hallway. Before they can annotate it, they226Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWjd416mdiM
are distracted by the dolls that stand alongside the walls. There are nine226Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ62dtyB5LsC
dolls, impressive in size and moulded in milk.
The dolls are red of hair that falls down gaunt necks, and on their hands,226Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsBmXsaFgvF
Silence sees elongated fingers. Silence does not yearn to see the finger where226Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPBZ5IqUXsb
the ring sits. They do not wish to comprehend the dolls further, and so Silence226Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMGzE6gLVow
turns away.
In the recollection, Silence is perhaps a child of seven. They stand before226Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGlF75bfisS
a door, too slight to reach the white doorbell with the black button. There are226Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5vEaxFwtEO
two other people with Silence. The boy has black hair, and it is messy; he took226Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvU9O3LTSXt
a nap in the car that had not seemed very restful to Silence. The boy has 226Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡotOgrtoE0w
green eyes that glittered with something that Silence would soon learn226Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhvkoJWstUc
to hate.
The other is an old man. Silence decided he was old when they first met him226Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtbMEReX4u8
because the man has to walk with a stick. And he was very slow. The man has one226Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhPCrx55mgn
hand on the suitcase with faded butterfly stickers and the other stretching out226Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIrt3YImyVt
for the bell that Silence is too slight to reach.
Nothing happens inside the redbrick house for a moment, and then the door is226Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHhWUl0sYVn
pulled open. Silence and the boy stare at the woman with milk-like skin, red226Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiKdwX6eghm
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 when226Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG0z4Lrp6Wz
she spoke to Silence, she did not like children of their so-called gender very226Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkIYg7Kx372
much.
The old man says a few words to the woman and turns, leaving Silence behind226Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyI1IqE61Bd
him to be ushered inside by the woman with milk skin.
Apprehension, then foreign to little Silence, fills Silence like226Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtLQvejcqRI
butterflies, and leap around like butterflies do when caught in a net. The226Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtJmP6jbv2R
butterflies leap ever frantically as sharp vocal urgings, push Silence into a226Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr5jGtOX5pa
room with a mirror with gold trim and two nightstands of mahogany, and a bed226Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDmlnBCGcba
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 the226Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFfQYOUHzOu
recollection where they felt hungry. There was someone else in the house with226Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpLJebGtI23
the old woman; another person bigger than Silence. She was milk of skin, but with blonde hair that226Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkysYkhn1zr
bounced about in curly springs.
Before the old man had left Silence behind, he had given both the boy and226Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYAfNaC1q3d
Silence a snack of popcorn and orange slice, to eat in the car. The boy did not226Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ047BPJaXaJ
like oranges and had thrown the four pieces of orange from the window. Silence226Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9bLKxfdI2j
did not throw their orange pieces out of226Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0LLAdOTjSm
the window, and the old man told Silence 226Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyu2TtOKXpZ
they were very good and the boy was very bad.
Silence walks into the great room where the old woman and the other woman226Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxsBEIirx7j
sit in arm chairs and watch the television. The women are watching Shrek.226Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUF6cDdJZg6
Silence knows they are watching Shrek because there is a green man, a donkey226Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkXhsrkndx3
and a pink dragon.
Silence was not hungry in the car, but now the feel their stomach gurgle.226Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSaDtjE2aWK
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 at226Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0NFB1tX3gn
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. The226Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5bkoDuJqrP
woman with red hair is on her feet now and stands over Silence, before reaching226Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQc9dqBIp4Q
down to snatch at the snack.
Silence blinks four times as they watch the old woman lumber toward the bin226Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu2jkhAmzYP
and throw away the food. The one older than Silence, snaps that good children226Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡehA0jBYzwV
should always ask for things, and that their mum, who, must be the old woman,226Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPBm3iaSxf5
does not believe that children need to have snacks.
The memory begins to roll away. Silence returns To their226Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6iermU1Tj8
room where they sit stripped of clothing and pride, and remembers how the old226Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ55JAbPhpae
man did226Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgsl2NE0VlL
not take anything from Silence, when the boy threw his snack out of the car226Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZgIsxSyI2T
window. The old man had told Silence they were very good. Then, the think about226Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzmXI7PTt0x
how the old woman snatched away the orange slices, and threw them in the bin.226Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHHoYPYZQvg
Silence realises that really, they must be very bad.
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