As Silence stares at the door,308Please respect copyright.PENANAzL5L6lipk2
another memory echoes in the long hallway. Before they can annotate it, they308Please respect copyright.PENANAZRDkFJUe6E
are distracted by the dolls that stand alongside the walls. There are nine308Please respect copyright.PENANAnhZ4qJmRLj
dolls, impressive in size and moulded in milk.
The dolls are red of hair that falls down gaunt necks, and on their hands,308Please respect copyright.PENANA1ogi7cZY7D
Silence sees elongated fingers. Silence does not yearn to see the finger where308Please respect copyright.PENANAJFktAIdtyf
the ring sits. They do not wish to comprehend the dolls further, and so Silence308Please respect copyright.PENANAVZPY30VrB9
turns away.
In the recollection, Silence is perhaps a child of seven. They stand before308Please respect copyright.PENANAUhbE6OW8Ho
a door, too slight to reach the white doorbell with the black button. There are308Please respect copyright.PENANALzLPobflN3
two other people with Silence. The boy has black hair, and it is messy; he took308Please respect copyright.PENANA4xFM8L5OjR
a nap in the car that had not seemed very restful to Silence. The boy has 308Please respect copyright.PENANACRRN2jAJBi
green eyes that glittered with something that Silence would soon learn308Please respect copyright.PENANAEfGBZtDlYT
to hate.
The other is an old man. Silence decided he was old when they first met him308Please respect copyright.PENANA7sqzL0qOOZ
because the man has to walk with a stick. And he was very slow. The man has one308Please respect copyright.PENANA3BRUOhMCB3
hand on the suitcase with faded butterfly stickers and the other stretching out308Please respect copyright.PENANAZdms1tPtYt
for the bell that Silence is too slight to reach.
Nothing happens inside the redbrick house for a moment, and then the door is308Please respect copyright.PENANAu9vbCufYRC
pulled open. Silence and the boy stare at the woman with milk-like skin, red308Please respect copyright.PENANAneoV6R1TiK
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 when308Please respect copyright.PENANASX23C4WQ6O
she spoke to Silence, she did not like children of their so-called gender very308Please respect copyright.PENANA4QZCemN8rw
much.
The old man says a few words to the woman and turns, leaving Silence behind308Please respect copyright.PENANAvs5bP8daeW
him to be ushered inside by the woman with milk skin.
Apprehension, then foreign to little Silence, fills Silence like308Please respect copyright.PENANAjUMmA7ABdy
butterflies, and leap around like butterflies do when caught in a net. The308Please respect copyright.PENANA78Lt1ZPUii
butterflies leap ever frantically as sharp vocal urgings, push Silence into a308Please respect copyright.PENANAcE7sBovl6I
room with a mirror with gold trim and two nightstands of mahogany, and a bed308Please respect copyright.PENANAPj6r18TRl0
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 the308Please respect copyright.PENANA2qoXMEQv3r
recollection where they felt hungry. There was someone else in the house with308Please respect copyright.PENANAQlU9KkjSuL
the old woman; another person bigger than Silence. She was milk of skin, but with blonde hair that308Please respect copyright.PENANA6wiN3NUMQL
bounced about in curly springs.
Before the old man had left Silence behind, he had given both the boy and308Please respect copyright.PENANApNVgEn3ho8
Silence a snack of popcorn and orange slice, to eat in the car. The boy did not308Please respect copyright.PENANAYkOnrTurD7
like oranges and had thrown the four pieces of orange from the window. Silence308Please respect copyright.PENANAnzAs9bN8u2
did not throw their orange pieces out of308Please respect copyright.PENANA2C8pevfveG
the window, and the old man told Silence 308Please respect copyright.PENANA9I6SkJs5wn
they were very good and the boy was very bad.
Silence walks into the great room where the old woman and the other woman308Please respect copyright.PENANA8Zl8LNb1mq
sit in arm chairs and watch the television. The women are watching Shrek.308Please respect copyright.PENANAIgN935g4vs
Silence knows they are watching Shrek because there is a green man, a donkey308Please respect copyright.PENANAUwHY2ZU1iA
and a pink dragon.
Silence was not hungry in the car, but now the feel their stomach gurgle.308Please respect copyright.PENANAwKHj5dL5HE
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 at308Please respect copyright.PENANAmqQhe5R2Tk
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. The308Please respect copyright.PENANAxB62RG460g
woman with red hair is on her feet now and stands over Silence, before reaching308Please respect copyright.PENANAsDdAxqdXx8
down to snatch at the snack.
Silence blinks four times as they watch the old woman lumber toward the bin308Please respect copyright.PENANAt8fPjwv33Q
and throw away the food. The one older than Silence, snaps that good children308Please respect copyright.PENANAWRwXFxxs6S
should always ask for things, and that their mum, who, must be the old woman,308Please respect copyright.PENANAF7y0IMCHrO
does not believe that children need to have snacks.
The memory begins to roll away. Silence returns To their308Please respect copyright.PENANAco5CqoePpC
room where they sit stripped of clothing and pride, and remembers how the old308Please respect copyright.PENANAFLP7Vn67IZ
man did308Please respect copyright.PENANAOgDg9KCA2t
not take anything from Silence, when the boy threw his snack out of the car308Please respect copyright.PENANAoNpDJtyZIH
window. The old man had told Silence they were very good. Then, the think about308Please respect copyright.PENANAppwLQ1ZE3u
how the old woman snatched away the orange slices, and threw them in the bin.308Please respect copyright.PENANA9YtyinrTaU
Silence realises that really, they must be very bad.
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