As Silence stares at the door,176Please respect copyright.PENANAgtxYxoXImi
another memory echoes in the long hallway. Before they can annotate it, they176Please respect copyright.PENANAeTbU1DVEmv
are distracted by the dolls that stand alongside the walls. There are nine176Please respect copyright.PENANAwF2bhiakeG
dolls, impressive in size and moulded in milk.
The dolls are red of hair that falls down gaunt necks, and on their hands,176Please respect copyright.PENANAp6rNRtWvJ8
Silence sees elongated fingers. Silence does not yearn to see the finger where176Please respect copyright.PENANA9SHg6mgvwm
the ring sits. They do not wish to comprehend the dolls further, and so Silence176Please respect copyright.PENANAYFt66vrCsi
turns away.
In the recollection, Silence is perhaps a child of seven. They stand before176Please respect copyright.PENANA6xumIEb7Lt
a door, too slight to reach the white doorbell with the black button. There are176Please respect copyright.PENANAOdDvHLAO3F
two other people with Silence. The boy has black hair, and it is messy; he took176Please respect copyright.PENANA8jmYi8qKBS
a nap in the car that had not seemed very restful to Silence. The boy has 176Please respect copyright.PENANAGokKQHxtZh
green eyes that glittered with something that Silence would soon learn176Please respect copyright.PENANABfxc6JmS4L
to hate.
The other is an old man. Silence decided he was old when they first met him176Please respect copyright.PENANA0MQRX2VC9L
because the man has to walk with a stick. And he was very slow. The man has one176Please respect copyright.PENANAiig4m7gN0U
hand on the suitcase with faded butterfly stickers and the other stretching out176Please respect copyright.PENANA6PaNfy66al
for the bell that Silence is too slight to reach.
Nothing happens inside the redbrick house for a moment, and then the door is176Please respect copyright.PENANAY7YqosLCYj
pulled open. Silence and the boy stare at the woman with milk-like skin, red176Please respect copyright.PENANAFNiKvvWohv
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 when176Please respect copyright.PENANAR5lsgezsr8
she spoke to Silence, she did not like children of their so-called gender very176Please respect copyright.PENANAwBo1xUWERe
much.
The old man says a few words to the woman and turns, leaving Silence behind176Please respect copyright.PENANADlPrcS0IQr
him to be ushered inside by the woman with milk skin.
Apprehension, then foreign to little Silence, fills Silence like176Please respect copyright.PENANAjUEt9fKqAO
butterflies, and leap around like butterflies do when caught in a net. The176Please respect copyright.PENANA0dVTmc7l66
butterflies leap ever frantically as sharp vocal urgings, push Silence into a176Please respect copyright.PENANAiXpWn3XtPm
room with a mirror with gold trim and two nightstands of mahogany, and a bed176Please respect copyright.PENANAAuIRHffZGY
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 the176Please respect copyright.PENANAbcdROvRDTT
recollection where they felt hungry. There was someone else in the house with176Please respect copyright.PENANApuHNZCJjYu
the old woman; another person bigger than Silence. She was milk of skin, but with blonde hair that176Please respect copyright.PENANAtaqix3oiKw
bounced about in curly springs.
Before the old man had left Silence behind, he had given both the boy and176Please respect copyright.PENANA4qwVDqMPF9
Silence a snack of popcorn and orange slice, to eat in the car. The boy did not176Please respect copyright.PENANAUW9cnOgQkl
like oranges and had thrown the four pieces of orange from the window. Silence176Please respect copyright.PENANAwHpy6iozPK
did not throw their orange pieces out of176Please respect copyright.PENANAWW5wite2Xf
the window, and the old man told Silence 176Please respect copyright.PENANAzUL8Gb5DMi
they were very good and the boy was very bad.
Silence walks into the great room where the old woman and the other woman176Please respect copyright.PENANAGpdzrWvlya
sit in arm chairs and watch the television. The women are watching Shrek.176Please respect copyright.PENANAMM78sOGW41
Silence knows they are watching Shrek because there is a green man, a donkey176Please respect copyright.PENANArkrL6PSykF
and a pink dragon.
Silence was not hungry in the car, but now the feel their stomach gurgle.176Please respect copyright.PENANAdUokeUXju0
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 at176Please respect copyright.PENANAb19gITBzOF
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. The176Please respect copyright.PENANAqDBGssCG1L
woman with red hair is on her feet now and stands over Silence, before reaching176Please respect copyright.PENANAn2urXsSjki
down to snatch at the snack.
Silence blinks four times as they watch the old woman lumber toward the bin176Please respect copyright.PENANAHuGK8TkmIL
and throw away the food. The one older than Silence, snaps that good children176Please respect copyright.PENANAcEAGrn0AU7
should always ask for things, and that their mum, who, must be the old woman,176Please respect copyright.PENANAIXPZEl8QfS
does not believe that children need to have snacks.
The memory begins to roll away. Silence returns To their176Please respect copyright.PENANASl434pSAUU
room where they sit stripped of clothing and pride, and remembers how the old176Please respect copyright.PENANA4stMdozSYG
man did176Please respect copyright.PENANA2102czNJT4
not take anything from Silence, when the boy threw his snack out of the car176Please respect copyright.PENANAVr8aht6abX
window. The old man had told Silence they were very good. Then, the think about176Please respect copyright.PENANAxf8v20uGqC
how the old woman snatched away the orange slices, and threw them in the bin.176Please respect copyright.PENANAX1oGjf4L3Q
Silence realises that really, they must be very bad.
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