As Silence stares at the door,414Please respect copyright.PENANAj1XDe0q8AC
another memory echoes in the long hallway. Before they can annotate it, they414Please respect copyright.PENANAvKVJIs54rF
are distracted by the dolls that stand alongside the walls. There are nine414Please respect copyright.PENANAenukFreN1F
dolls, impressive in size and moulded in milk.
The dolls are red of hair that falls down gaunt necks, and on their hands,414Please respect copyright.PENANApmP0R6Su3y
Silence sees elongated fingers. Silence does not yearn to see the finger where414Please respect copyright.PENANAM1MfAsI2W2
the ring sits. They do not wish to comprehend the dolls further, and so Silence414Please respect copyright.PENANA4AZcMJYvfA
turns away.
In the recollection, Silence is perhaps a child of seven. They stand before414Please respect copyright.PENANA5UTj8mXIlh
a door, too slight to reach the white doorbell with the black button. There are414Please respect copyright.PENANA0wVH1yTuiX
two other people with Silence. The boy has black hair, and it is messy; he took414Please respect copyright.PENANA5K7Z1ORav0
a nap in the car that had not seemed very restful to Silence. The boy has 414Please respect copyright.PENANAwE8kNxuX7a
green eyes that glittered with something that Silence would soon learn414Please respect copyright.PENANAGuRaLZQXbi
to hate.
The other is an old man. Silence decided he was old when they first met him414Please respect copyright.PENANAP3F7oAivto
because the man has to walk with a stick. And he was very slow. The man has one414Please respect copyright.PENANAJ4IW9GDSiN
hand on the suitcase with faded butterfly stickers and the other stretching out414Please respect copyright.PENANANZJHHUsKcf
for the bell that Silence is too slight to reach.
Nothing happens inside the redbrick house for a moment, and then the door is414Please respect copyright.PENANAjLCke5g7a0
pulled open. Silence and the boy stare at the woman with milk-like skin, red414Please respect copyright.PENANAaqNpQjMz9Y
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 when414Please respect copyright.PENANA3foPAvyISd
she spoke to Silence, she did not like children of their so-called gender very414Please respect copyright.PENANAAEe3SPwPdu
much.
The old man says a few words to the woman and turns, leaving Silence behind414Please respect copyright.PENANA36OPbXXSzi
him to be ushered inside by the woman with milk skin.
Apprehension, then foreign to little Silence, fills Silence like414Please respect copyright.PENANA9CXr8hIc6m
butterflies, and leap around like butterflies do when caught in a net. The414Please respect copyright.PENANAMb2tSTwTvQ
butterflies leap ever frantically as sharp vocal urgings, push Silence into a414Please respect copyright.PENANA4neoY1sOPD
room with a mirror with gold trim and two nightstands of mahogany, and a bed414Please respect copyright.PENANAmZt9I06zNK
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 the414Please respect copyright.PENANASFixxBOXFn
recollection where they felt hungry. There was someone else in the house with414Please respect copyright.PENANAaLieEaruhi
the old woman; another person bigger than Silence. She was milk of skin, but with blonde hair that414Please respect copyright.PENANAnznhsCXuwR
bounced about in curly springs.
Before the old man had left Silence behind, he had given both the boy and414Please respect copyright.PENANAVW24EZbZpO
Silence a snack of popcorn and orange slice, to eat in the car. The boy did not414Please respect copyright.PENANAQ6eEMAI3Jg
like oranges and had thrown the four pieces of orange from the window. Silence414Please respect copyright.PENANAnlGKSNWaZF
did not throw their orange pieces out of414Please respect copyright.PENANAm4Nygj9KsX
the window, and the old man told Silence 414Please respect copyright.PENANAhyk0hpZ0b7
they were very good and the boy was very bad.
Silence walks into the great room where the old woman and the other woman414Please respect copyright.PENANA5IZJ8ZVGtk
sit in arm chairs and watch the television. The women are watching Shrek.414Please respect copyright.PENANADql5DqXoHK
Silence knows they are watching Shrek because there is a green man, a donkey414Please respect copyright.PENANALWeRGDRwHm
and a pink dragon.
Silence was not hungry in the car, but now the feel their stomach gurgle.414Please respect copyright.PENANABJfWiMTJll
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 at414Please respect copyright.PENANAoKYcHtsz68
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. The414Please respect copyright.PENANAKKLgTgcgjn
woman with red hair is on her feet now and stands over Silence, before reaching414Please respect copyright.PENANAt3RCz3Nk3u
down to snatch at the snack.
Silence blinks four times as they watch the old woman lumber toward the bin414Please respect copyright.PENANAl9musWxnDz
and throw away the food. The one older than Silence, snaps that good children414Please respect copyright.PENANAa9gXCkGFID
should always ask for things, and that their mum, who, must be the old woman,414Please respect copyright.PENANADHvaE70RLW
does not believe that children need to have snacks.
The memory begins to roll away. Silence returns To their414Please respect copyright.PENANAz6hAt41R6k
room where they sit stripped of clothing and pride, and remembers how the old414Please respect copyright.PENANAtSXx2nEB6O
man did414Please respect copyright.PENANAj6mlx2xpI9
not take anything from Silence, when the boy threw his snack out of the car414Please respect copyright.PENANAgU5acOo3ws
window. The old man had told Silence they were very good. Then, the think about414Please respect copyright.PENANAr27rrx7bX9
how the old woman snatched away the orange slices, and threw them in the bin.414Please respect copyright.PENANA23QItuEprd
Silence realises that really, they must be very bad.
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