As Silence stares at the door,271Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5tBz4RhxvN
another memory echoes in the long hallway. Before they can annotate it, they271Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyUdar33wvw
are distracted by the dolls that stand alongside the walls. There are nine271Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvjMjuuL3T9
dolls, impressive in size and moulded in milk.
The dolls are red of hair that falls down gaunt necks, and on their hands,271Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdKaJdCN8Hy
Silence sees elongated fingers. Silence does not yearn to see the finger where271Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTE8INnC063
the ring sits. They do not wish to comprehend the dolls further, and so Silence271Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmNUypEEfIv
turns away.
In the recollection, Silence is perhaps a child of seven. They stand before271Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXunc5VqMUQ
a door, too slight to reach the white doorbell with the black button. There are271Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1KqEnhxHzk
two other people with Silence. The boy has black hair, and it is messy; he took271Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHJrKObKEaE
a nap in the car that had not seemed very restful to Silence. The boy has 271Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFCG5vmEDoC
green eyes that glittered with something that Silence would soon learn271Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ27rhihGoVm
to hate.
The other is an old man. Silence decided he was old when they first met him271Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmeKh8iWCPm
because the man has to walk with a stick. And he was very slow. The man has one271Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIVDExLWEEL
hand on the suitcase with faded butterfly stickers and the other stretching out271Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8irJXJAfT7
for the bell that Silence is too slight to reach.
Nothing happens inside the redbrick house for a moment, and then the door is271Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFEeuVtZ8T8
pulled open. Silence and the boy stare at the woman with milk-like skin, red271Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC4KGZXKRwL
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 when271Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuLtLtdG4B2
she spoke to Silence, she did not like children of their so-called gender very271Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHjok7pRBmo
much.
The old man says a few words to the woman and turns, leaving Silence behind271Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDPNHP1EPYP
him to be ushered inside by the woman with milk skin.
Apprehension, then foreign to little Silence, fills Silence like271Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9u1etzFIXR
butterflies, and leap around like butterflies do when caught in a net. The271Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5CYVe5EbvY
butterflies leap ever frantically as sharp vocal urgings, push Silence into a271Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCUT3OFs9m0
room with a mirror with gold trim and two nightstands of mahogany, and a bed271Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2vWaFJBxZ8
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 the271Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj7EVK77pZV
recollection where they felt hungry. There was someone else in the house with271Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNe09HsKRRh
the old woman; another person bigger than Silence. She was milk of skin, but with blonde hair that271Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCbgB2uIjx8
bounced about in curly springs.
Before the old man had left Silence behind, he had given both the boy and271Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXMppryxtOi
Silence a snack of popcorn and orange slice, to eat in the car. The boy did not271Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAjWXTQuI0M
like oranges and had thrown the four pieces of orange from the window. Silence271Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGiTBjtzNjh
did not throw their orange pieces out of271Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDl647Nb6jX
the window, and the old man told Silence 271Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1TS21d16RD
they were very good and the boy was very bad.
Silence walks into the great room where the old woman and the other woman271Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpKwEcUfoJp
sit in arm chairs and watch the television. The women are watching Shrek.271Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD5jlgKdtuN
Silence knows they are watching Shrek because there is a green man, a donkey271Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAewyszpaUb
and a pink dragon.
Silence was not hungry in the car, but now the feel their stomach gurgle.271Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfqBYyEYnG9
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 at271Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxJQj8RQECp
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. The271Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSHk7gl5Dwp
woman with red hair is on her feet now and stands over Silence, before reaching271Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSo9rpa9X4p
down to snatch at the snack.
Silence blinks four times as they watch the old woman lumber toward the bin271Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgLyxBkBryM
and throw away the food. The one older than Silence, snaps that good children271Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡemCC1hjLc6
should always ask for things, and that their mum, who, must be the old woman,271Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3PWWtkC1K8
does not believe that children need to have snacks.
The memory begins to roll away. Silence returns To their271Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAcyqLQPrUc
room where they sit stripped of clothing and pride, and remembers how the old271Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBB6dmmecFZ
man did271Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYasvTbb0dR
not take anything from Silence, when the boy threw his snack out of the car271Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn2yi6410YP
window. The old man had told Silence they were very good. Then, the think about271Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡffkzHlnkPp
how the old woman snatched away the orange slices, and threw them in the bin.271Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsKCJeRLIUC
Silence realises that really, they must be very bad.
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