As Silence stares at the door,244Please respect copyright.PENANAssc2sdzJhI
another memory echoes in the long hallway. Before they can annotate it, they244Please respect copyright.PENANAYuI19G12NI
are distracted by the dolls that stand alongside the walls. There are nine244Please respect copyright.PENANAI54CDbXLoe
dolls, impressive in size and moulded in milk.
The dolls are red of hair that falls down gaunt necks, and on their hands,244Please respect copyright.PENANA4Erz7uNjnw
Silence sees elongated fingers. Silence does not yearn to see the finger where244Please respect copyright.PENANAzS52RdnXcN
the ring sits. They do not wish to comprehend the dolls further, and so Silence244Please respect copyright.PENANAudnBrIrpQt
turns away.
In the recollection, Silence is perhaps a child of seven. They stand before244Please respect copyright.PENANAWWgSVddDHX
a door, too slight to reach the white doorbell with the black button. There are244Please respect copyright.PENANA8LHlSAJsAs
two other people with Silence. The boy has black hair, and it is messy; he took244Please respect copyright.PENANAE4P2ZmCTZ1
a nap in the car that had not seemed very restful to Silence. The boy has 244Please respect copyright.PENANAyo9VpXv5mw
green eyes that glittered with something that Silence would soon learn244Please respect copyright.PENANAIpw92jLOK9
to hate.
The other is an old man. Silence decided he was old when they first met him244Please respect copyright.PENANA0a6lenrIcB
because the man has to walk with a stick. And he was very slow. The man has one244Please respect copyright.PENANAvk8OhJCRIU
hand on the suitcase with faded butterfly stickers and the other stretching out244Please respect copyright.PENANAbgRhs46VRG
for the bell that Silence is too slight to reach.
Nothing happens inside the redbrick house for a moment, and then the door is244Please respect copyright.PENANASWLiq981uv
pulled open. Silence and the boy stare at the woman with milk-like skin, red244Please respect copyright.PENANAZwBC3U8lGq
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 when244Please respect copyright.PENANA8GuxfdbZQc
she spoke to Silence, she did not like children of their so-called gender very244Please respect copyright.PENANAZh6RB72oSa
much.
The old man says a few words to the woman and turns, leaving Silence behind244Please respect copyright.PENANASTijA0Eryo
him to be ushered inside by the woman with milk skin.
Apprehension, then foreign to little Silence, fills Silence like244Please respect copyright.PENANA3X771XVSra
butterflies, and leap around like butterflies do when caught in a net. The244Please respect copyright.PENANAemegjphiH1
butterflies leap ever frantically as sharp vocal urgings, push Silence into a244Please respect copyright.PENANAdm7eTXlm7A
room with a mirror with gold trim and two nightstands of mahogany, and a bed244Please respect copyright.PENANAsqmGf4PrLA
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 the244Please respect copyright.PENANA7ZcaiAFU2i
recollection where they felt hungry. There was someone else in the house with244Please respect copyright.PENANAgJ9pJid7EG
the old woman; another person bigger than Silence. She was milk of skin, but with blonde hair that244Please respect copyright.PENANAvpgC8Vs83I
bounced about in curly springs.
Before the old man had left Silence behind, he had given both the boy and244Please respect copyright.PENANALnPs6ff3pq
Silence a snack of popcorn and orange slice, to eat in the car. The boy did not244Please respect copyright.PENANAG9eckNZbhw
like oranges and had thrown the four pieces of orange from the window. Silence244Please respect copyright.PENANAArRZDQTQgz
did not throw their orange pieces out of244Please respect copyright.PENANArjoJsvXAvK
the window, and the old man told Silence 244Please respect copyright.PENANAN4RnZ3jLir
they were very good and the boy was very bad.
Silence walks into the great room where the old woman and the other woman244Please respect copyright.PENANAmHkLtOm6fy
sit in arm chairs and watch the television. The women are watching Shrek.244Please respect copyright.PENANAPv2aZyXh6Q
Silence knows they are watching Shrek because there is a green man, a donkey244Please respect copyright.PENANAYVoR9g0iWe
and a pink dragon.
Silence was not hungry in the car, but now the feel their stomach gurgle.244Please respect copyright.PENANAcCJIHWK69I
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 at244Please respect copyright.PENANAXxIPoV187L
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. The244Please respect copyright.PENANAf6jFjtFAei
woman with red hair is on her feet now and stands over Silence, before reaching244Please respect copyright.PENANAJK85XCKpKM
down to snatch at the snack.
Silence blinks four times as they watch the old woman lumber toward the bin244Please respect copyright.PENANAwqEDxeFJC0
and throw away the food. The one older than Silence, snaps that good children244Please respect copyright.PENANANkbbr7hD2T
should always ask for things, and that their mum, who, must be the old woman,244Please respect copyright.PENANAyWDaSKjKT4
does not believe that children need to have snacks.
The memory begins to roll away. Silence returns To their244Please respect copyright.PENANA8r2Px5IAkb
room where they sit stripped of clothing and pride, and remembers how the old244Please respect copyright.PENANAa9jIPYBcp3
man did244Please respect copyright.PENANANcvjLww4DC
not take anything from Silence, when the boy threw his snack out of the car244Please respect copyright.PENANAdemWZikp7I
window. The old man had told Silence they were very good. Then, the think about244Please respect copyright.PENANACKgK5Ki5tn
how the old woman snatched away the orange slices, and threw them in the bin.244Please respect copyright.PENANAeqPy0xsRq5
Silence realises that really, they must be very bad.
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