As Silence stares at the door,275Please respect copyright.PENANAeUE4BgzjRl
another memory echoes in the long hallway. Before they can annotate it, they275Please respect copyright.PENANAeFqDhd9I3T
are distracted by the dolls that stand alongside the walls. There are nine275Please respect copyright.PENANAqNybXNqBhQ
dolls, impressive in size and moulded in milk.
The dolls are red of hair that falls down gaunt necks, and on their hands,275Please respect copyright.PENANAbYWyTFzBVh
Silence sees elongated fingers. Silence does not yearn to see the finger where275Please respect copyright.PENANAr5HhF1g7xO
the ring sits. They do not wish to comprehend the dolls further, and so Silence275Please respect copyright.PENANAo7CmMpVgkb
turns away.
In the recollection, Silence is perhaps a child of seven. They stand before275Please respect copyright.PENANA2rF4us66TO
a door, too slight to reach the white doorbell with the black button. There are275Please respect copyright.PENANA89fXX1Sxw4
two other people with Silence. The boy has black hair, and it is messy; he took275Please respect copyright.PENANA8FMCI8uqYL
a nap in the car that had not seemed very restful to Silence. The boy has 275Please respect copyright.PENANAE2CRgkuDRK
green eyes that glittered with something that Silence would soon learn275Please respect copyright.PENANAwW633EAMSx
to hate.
The other is an old man. Silence decided he was old when they first met him275Please respect copyright.PENANATZ6SSzFr7D
because the man has to walk with a stick. And he was very slow. The man has one275Please respect copyright.PENANAMNQPQ5YCL9
hand on the suitcase with faded butterfly stickers and the other stretching out275Please respect copyright.PENANA4DsEdx44eK
for the bell that Silence is too slight to reach.
Nothing happens inside the redbrick house for a moment, and then the door is275Please respect copyright.PENANAivnRxGOnxZ
pulled open. Silence and the boy stare at the woman with milk-like skin, red275Please respect copyright.PENANAPqoBPqiR0u
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 when275Please respect copyright.PENANADixObsN6uL
she spoke to Silence, she did not like children of their so-called gender very275Please respect copyright.PENANA2tPhO519wX
much.
The old man says a few words to the woman and turns, leaving Silence behind275Please respect copyright.PENANAB7BxOvMWRj
him to be ushered inside by the woman with milk skin.
Apprehension, then foreign to little Silence, fills Silence like275Please respect copyright.PENANA2PSEvpKM3y
butterflies, and leap around like butterflies do when caught in a net. The275Please respect copyright.PENANAYGi99bxRnz
butterflies leap ever frantically as sharp vocal urgings, push Silence into a275Please respect copyright.PENANALiZCCK8E8B
room with a mirror with gold trim and two nightstands of mahogany, and a bed275Please respect copyright.PENANAUjf8xwdVHT
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 the275Please respect copyright.PENANAk0AlGySMIo
recollection where they felt hungry. There was someone else in the house with275Please respect copyright.PENANAP3DA8FdsqA
the old woman; another person bigger than Silence. She was milk of skin, but with blonde hair that275Please respect copyright.PENANA9WOdicQWWc
bounced about in curly springs.
Before the old man had left Silence behind, he had given both the boy and275Please respect copyright.PENANA20VfkYg7WI
Silence a snack of popcorn and orange slice, to eat in the car. The boy did not275Please respect copyright.PENANADbuuh7m39K
like oranges and had thrown the four pieces of orange from the window. Silence275Please respect copyright.PENANAjbszs7FnS4
did not throw their orange pieces out of275Please respect copyright.PENANAeF5qBhc8QN
the window, and the old man told Silence 275Please respect copyright.PENANAtjp9dQgU2B
they were very good and the boy was very bad.
Silence walks into the great room where the old woman and the other woman275Please respect copyright.PENANAU6kZRKepCn
sit in arm chairs and watch the television. The women are watching Shrek.275Please respect copyright.PENANA7WzTOC8uHE
Silence knows they are watching Shrek because there is a green man, a donkey275Please respect copyright.PENANACaCkwXKpAx
and a pink dragon.
Silence was not hungry in the car, but now the feel their stomach gurgle.275Please respect copyright.PENANA2y9H9Hmk03
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 at275Please respect copyright.PENANAIWg3sKLTmg
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. The275Please respect copyright.PENANAqyVY5usA8K
woman with red hair is on her feet now and stands over Silence, before reaching275Please respect copyright.PENANAERi7gMFeMM
down to snatch at the snack.
Silence blinks four times as they watch the old woman lumber toward the bin275Please respect copyright.PENANAScRwyiMoTD
and throw away the food. The one older than Silence, snaps that good children275Please respect copyright.PENANAt1orWIcm66
should always ask for things, and that their mum, who, must be the old woman,275Please respect copyright.PENANANCerKIieIK
does not believe that children need to have snacks.
The memory begins to roll away. Silence returns To their275Please respect copyright.PENANAXIr3TZupSM
room where they sit stripped of clothing and pride, and remembers how the old275Please respect copyright.PENANAAC4pLbuGhH
man did275Please respect copyright.PENANAOUOxvT529z
not take anything from Silence, when the boy threw his snack out of the car275Please respect copyright.PENANAcqtMFhJfeS
window. The old man had told Silence they were very good. Then, the think about275Please respect copyright.PENANAtCN2O90DwD
how the old woman snatched away the orange slices, and threw them in the bin.275Please respect copyright.PENANAqDhCP4hAT7
Silence realises that really, they must be very bad.
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