As Silence stares at the door,389Please respect copyright.PENANAKUlw34FZLA
another memory echoes in the long hallway. Before they can annotate it, they389Please respect copyright.PENANArvxr1KD4wH
are distracted by the dolls that stand alongside the walls. There are nine389Please respect copyright.PENANAl1zErDsv0J
dolls, impressive in size and moulded in milk.
The dolls are red of hair that falls down gaunt necks, and on their hands,389Please respect copyright.PENANAacpD8h1NCj
Silence sees elongated fingers. Silence does not yearn to see the finger where389Please respect copyright.PENANAk4WUBW420G
the ring sits. They do not wish to comprehend the dolls further, and so Silence389Please respect copyright.PENANAVMs3LaoqA9
turns away.
In the recollection, Silence is perhaps a child of seven. They stand before389Please respect copyright.PENANACfkVDqaPaP
a door, too slight to reach the white doorbell with the black button. There are389Please respect copyright.PENANA3Qk9QJ9pOo
two other people with Silence. The boy has black hair, and it is messy; he took389Please respect copyright.PENANALh6jZEwQJS
a nap in the car that had not seemed very restful to Silence. The boy has 389Please respect copyright.PENANAPgKnvnHdWX
green eyes that glittered with something that Silence would soon learn389Please respect copyright.PENANApEmZK2I47U
to hate.
The other is an old man. Silence decided he was old when they first met him389Please respect copyright.PENANAXQqgBN9eDb
because the man has to walk with a stick. And he was very slow. The man has one389Please respect copyright.PENANAg9fUTmZJgI
hand on the suitcase with faded butterfly stickers and the other stretching out389Please respect copyright.PENANAPjB4BcDYRG
for the bell that Silence is too slight to reach.
Nothing happens inside the redbrick house for a moment, and then the door is389Please respect copyright.PENANAFnvkiLb3GQ
pulled open. Silence and the boy stare at the woman with milk-like skin, red389Please respect copyright.PENANAJKq0PaQR8Z
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 when389Please respect copyright.PENANAn2yijPzVn2
she spoke to Silence, she did not like children of their so-called gender very389Please respect copyright.PENANAMRR7tteOhG
much.
The old man says a few words to the woman and turns, leaving Silence behind389Please respect copyright.PENANAaC8ifQFIth
him to be ushered inside by the woman with milk skin.
Apprehension, then foreign to little Silence, fills Silence like389Please respect copyright.PENANA6qGmGGprIM
butterflies, and leap around like butterflies do when caught in a net. The389Please respect copyright.PENANAR0fye4wMGG
butterflies leap ever frantically as sharp vocal urgings, push Silence into a389Please respect copyright.PENANAv5bPVPNJnz
room with a mirror with gold trim and two nightstands of mahogany, and a bed389Please respect copyright.PENANAPsgvkej71L
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 the389Please respect copyright.PENANA6f9HA320TK
recollection where they felt hungry. There was someone else in the house with389Please respect copyright.PENANAYbQlayrb9X
the old woman; another person bigger than Silence. She was milk of skin, but with blonde hair that389Please respect copyright.PENANAeOY9Hv9sh3
bounced about in curly springs.
Before the old man had left Silence behind, he had given both the boy and389Please respect copyright.PENANAsnNNXAPJJJ
Silence a snack of popcorn and orange slice, to eat in the car. The boy did not389Please respect copyright.PENANAHqXuzoDlGQ
like oranges and had thrown the four pieces of orange from the window. Silence389Please respect copyright.PENANACL9f1l6VPn
did not throw their orange pieces out of389Please respect copyright.PENANA0ojW6vXRXC
the window, and the old man told Silence 389Please respect copyright.PENANA3t2ISEhhnt
they were very good and the boy was very bad.
Silence walks into the great room where the old woman and the other woman389Please respect copyright.PENANAbtSLZx8l25
sit in arm chairs and watch the television. The women are watching Shrek.389Please respect copyright.PENANAd0nF8Dj3Yd
Silence knows they are watching Shrek because there is a green man, a donkey389Please respect copyright.PENANAiFc9dNfUHL
and a pink dragon.
Silence was not hungry in the car, but now the feel their stomach gurgle.389Please respect copyright.PENANAChm5ZOSHzN
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 at389Please respect copyright.PENANAWmBhjgkjlF
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. The389Please respect copyright.PENANAt7WHwWeByF
woman with red hair is on her feet now and stands over Silence, before reaching389Please respect copyright.PENANAcl3V8fIR1g
down to snatch at the snack.
Silence blinks four times as they watch the old woman lumber toward the bin389Please respect copyright.PENANAPZYvpQ70lf
and throw away the food. The one older than Silence, snaps that good children389Please respect copyright.PENANAstaQrbP0UL
should always ask for things, and that their mum, who, must be the old woman,389Please respect copyright.PENANA56GwIWQX4Y
does not believe that children need to have snacks.
The memory begins to roll away. Silence returns To their389Please respect copyright.PENANArSIg0PMpZ1
room where they sit stripped of clothing and pride, and remembers how the old389Please respect copyright.PENANAbGID85chMF
man did389Please respect copyright.PENANA44UhYzWCzg
not take anything from Silence, when the boy threw his snack out of the car389Please respect copyright.PENANAjXliCTW6k0
window. The old man had told Silence they were very good. Then, the think about389Please respect copyright.PENANArXJH7nTRNQ
how the old woman snatched away the orange slices, and threw them in the bin.389Please respect copyright.PENANA0rRjMUJnTe
Silence realises that really, they must be very bad.
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