As Silence stares at the door,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLBRCQlV1M0
another memory echoes in the long hallway. Before they can annotate it, they399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrZJ0HUi5IX
are distracted by the dolls that stand alongside the walls. There are nine399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeRE6uOK3Bi
dolls, impressive in size and moulded in milk.
The dolls are red of hair that falls down gaunt necks, and on their hands,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCfjEGiukaZ
Silence sees elongated fingers. Silence does not yearn to see the finger where399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlvbOlE9vuk
the ring sits. They do not wish to comprehend the dolls further, and so Silence399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlBfLKxnSMB
turns away.
In the recollection, Silence is perhaps a child of seven. They stand before399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOIQkruPCs5
a door, too slight to reach the white doorbell with the black button. There are399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQVhKbsk6RB
two other people with Silence. The boy has black hair, and it is messy; he took399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQsPJxnGg3B
a nap in the car that had not seemed very restful to Silence. The boy has 399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT25PyYVy0u
green eyes that glittered with something that Silence would soon learn399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkev5wwkSaQ
to hate.
The other is an old man. Silence decided he was old when they first met him399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3cln4bYwUb
because the man has to walk with a stick. And he was very slow. The man has one399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrkmjeYNoYi
hand on the suitcase with faded butterfly stickers and the other stretching out399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNyIC5ZeEK9
for the bell that Silence is too slight to reach.
Nothing happens inside the redbrick house for a moment, and then the door is399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQQezKkVmex
pulled open. Silence and the boy stare at the woman with milk-like skin, red399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKPXey3kJdQ
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 when399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdVYB79KUXF
she spoke to Silence, she did not like children of their so-called gender very399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXf3DdOUMWT
much.
The old man says a few words to the woman and turns, leaving Silence behind399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXX1HMI62JK
him to be ushered inside by the woman with milk skin.
Apprehension, then foreign to little Silence, fills Silence like399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwIAvf7nccn
butterflies, and leap around like butterflies do when caught in a net. The399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYR8kDBH6q3
butterflies leap ever frantically as sharp vocal urgings, push Silence into a399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCyvoqv8YIM
room with a mirror with gold trim and two nightstands of mahogany, and a bed399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFjtcc5Degj
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 the399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZcGjbgK2dZ
recollection where they felt hungry. There was someone else in the house with399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡszcKcTsaAd
the old woman; another person bigger than Silence. She was milk of skin, but with blonde hair that399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN5e1OnXYvL
bounced about in curly springs.
Before the old man had left Silence behind, he had given both the boy and399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFe2eTwXJTn
Silence a snack of popcorn and orange slice, to eat in the car. The boy did not399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbZZ324024X
like oranges and had thrown the four pieces of orange from the window. Silence399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeQG7bOvgen
did not throw their orange pieces out of399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNlJR5ocUbK
the window, and the old man told Silence 399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6ngQMHgI3V
they were very good and the boy was very bad.
Silence walks into the great room where the old woman and the other woman399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡseMTPk6ONS
sit in arm chairs and watch the television. The women are watching Shrek.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtad0kFzKPE
Silence knows they are watching Shrek because there is a green man, a donkey399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdSiSwCIfhY
and a pink dragon.
Silence was not hungry in the car, but now the feel their stomach gurgle.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1zUAnpNgC8
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 at399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡErvSAfIjrc
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. The399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD3eVxGzxuI
woman with red hair is on her feet now and stands over Silence, before reaching399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO2aD6FfvLa
down to snatch at the snack.
Silence blinks four times as they watch the old woman lumber toward the bin399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiVcnHNtDnz
and throw away the food. The one older than Silence, snaps that good children399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt6FyTZO3vs
should always ask for things, and that their mum, who, must be the old woman,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8l1koMr7c3
does not believe that children need to have snacks.
The memory begins to roll away. Silence returns To their399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP2ABudxOYX
room where they sit stripped of clothing and pride, and remembers how the old399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3wasTZMwr6
man did399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNGpborxYX9
not take anything from Silence, when the boy threw his snack out of the car399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh91FAU6a6u
window. The old man had told Silence they were very good. Then, the think about399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyxWTYHnl3b
how the old woman snatched away the orange slices, and threw them in the bin.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEvqP9YNida
Silence realises that really, they must be very bad.
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