As Silence stares at the door,148Please respect copyright.PENANAw13D8CkJfs
another memory echoes in the long hallway. Before they can annotate it, they148Please respect copyright.PENANAOkhg8qENog
are distracted by the dolls that stand alongside the walls. There are nine148Please respect copyright.PENANAfRnmRF2ue0
dolls, impressive in size and moulded in milk.
The dolls are red of hair that falls down gaunt necks, and on their hands,148Please respect copyright.PENANAtTvgGncfbN
Silence sees elongated fingers. Silence does not yearn to see the finger where148Please respect copyright.PENANAa0JwrGW2Q5
the ring sits. They do not wish to comprehend the dolls further, and so Silence148Please respect copyright.PENANASy38oqZRZN
turns away.
In the recollection, Silence is perhaps a child of seven. They stand before148Please respect copyright.PENANAed84BIMFAX
a door, too slight to reach the white doorbell with the black button. There are148Please respect copyright.PENANAJ6vk9LRbAw
two other people with Silence. The boy has black hair, and it is messy; he took148Please respect copyright.PENANA9Zxpp8Gs9D
a nap in the car that had not seemed very restful to Silence. The boy has 148Please respect copyright.PENANAldWlL06cDs
green eyes that glittered with something that Silence would soon learn148Please respect copyright.PENANACCY9daN7Ov
to hate.
The other is an old man. Silence decided he was old when they first met him148Please respect copyright.PENANApvuyqiQHyh
because the man has to walk with a stick. And he was very slow. The man has one148Please respect copyright.PENANAEPtx4JHy8B
hand on the suitcase with faded butterfly stickers and the other stretching out148Please respect copyright.PENANAqim0odCocP
for the bell that Silence is too slight to reach.
Nothing happens inside the redbrick house for a moment, and then the door is148Please respect copyright.PENANAPkw1sa6l8z
pulled open. Silence and the boy stare at the woman with milk-like skin, red148Please respect copyright.PENANAU4PZQXPtRh
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 when148Please respect copyright.PENANACwEHXO7K7v
she spoke to Silence, she did not like children of their so-called gender very148Please respect copyright.PENANApU1pfJ2Fej
much.
The old man says a few words to the woman and turns, leaving Silence behind148Please respect copyright.PENANAnbb2oCqZJS
him to be ushered inside by the woman with milk skin.
Apprehension, then foreign to little Silence, fills Silence like148Please respect copyright.PENANAdst09lhBS7
butterflies, and leap around like butterflies do when caught in a net. The148Please respect copyright.PENANAOoksJf8NZI
butterflies leap ever frantically as sharp vocal urgings, push Silence into a148Please respect copyright.PENANAkphw3d3Uce
room with a mirror with gold trim and two nightstands of mahogany, and a bed148Please respect copyright.PENANAMSVweZ09Oh
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 the148Please respect copyright.PENANAmAwKXqs87r
recollection where they felt hungry. There was someone else in the house with148Please respect copyright.PENANA3Hbn5ura2p
the old woman; another person bigger than Silence. She was milk of skin, but with blonde hair that148Please respect copyright.PENANAbXn610HFFP
bounced about in curly springs.
Before the old man had left Silence behind, he had given both the boy and148Please respect copyright.PENANARTu9YUIryC
Silence a snack of popcorn and orange slice, to eat in the car. The boy did not148Please respect copyright.PENANAqjcaVQC9DZ
like oranges and had thrown the four pieces of orange from the window. Silence148Please respect copyright.PENANAQyREeDKqNI
did not throw their orange pieces out of148Please respect copyright.PENANAvbYpYGhB7P
the window, and the old man told Silence 148Please respect copyright.PENANApg5npRjcpk
they were very good and the boy was very bad.
Silence walks into the great room where the old woman and the other woman148Please respect copyright.PENANAJsE0AZMbwt
sit in arm chairs and watch the television. The women are watching Shrek.148Please respect copyright.PENANAzyLQoQkfmA
Silence knows they are watching Shrek because there is a green man, a donkey148Please respect copyright.PENANAq3xK2Sq6Wt
and a pink dragon.
Silence was not hungry in the car, but now the feel their stomach gurgle.148Please respect copyright.PENANAswPOxfLo6e
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 at148Please respect copyright.PENANA2lLcDtT61n
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. The148Please respect copyright.PENANA2uCrXu8aMk
woman with red hair is on her feet now and stands over Silence, before reaching148Please respect copyright.PENANAK6aBCUxwcs
down to snatch at the snack.
Silence blinks four times as they watch the old woman lumber toward the bin148Please respect copyright.PENANASJwWxq5S9M
and throw away the food. The one older than Silence, snaps that good children148Please respect copyright.PENANAdihQF4i8rM
should always ask for things, and that their mum, who, must be the old woman,148Please respect copyright.PENANAPCUYQN7BN0
does not believe that children need to have snacks.
The memory begins to roll away. Silence returns To their148Please respect copyright.PENANAe7NC0LhP6a
room where they sit stripped of clothing and pride, and remembers how the old148Please respect copyright.PENANAP7l1IjYjpF
man did148Please respect copyright.PENANAO3LzIcg4QJ
not take anything from Silence, when the boy threw his snack out of the car148Please respect copyright.PENANABLVmShhJAu
window. The old man had told Silence they were very good. Then, the think about148Please respect copyright.PENANAdJUhcWsuqu
how the old woman snatched away the orange slices, and threw them in the bin.148Please respect copyright.PENANABGRD0xQsEu
Silence realises that really, they must be very bad.
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