As Silence stares at the door,277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAo6pdnC6LT
another memory echoes in the long hallway. Before they can annotate it, they277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgTeJTijz1g
are distracted by the dolls that stand alongside the walls. There are nine277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvEfUiSZwdm
dolls, impressive in size and moulded in milk.
The dolls are red of hair that falls down gaunt necks, and on their hands,277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmoi3JwuR0P
Silence sees elongated fingers. Silence does not yearn to see the finger where277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq2ADl6BWHX
the ring sits. They do not wish to comprehend the dolls further, and so Silence277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv50LoxF4td
turns away.
In the recollection, Silence is perhaps a child of seven. They stand before277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSQy3IpLcVm
a door, too slight to reach the white doorbell with the black button. There are277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaKekHvDgt8
two other people with Silence. The boy has black hair, and it is messy; he took277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfpPz45zJI1
a nap in the car that had not seemed very restful to Silence. The boy has 277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3FRvjQmZQF
green eyes that glittered with something that Silence would soon learn277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf3w9LMelD1
to hate.
The other is an old man. Silence decided he was old when they first met him277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ60A8Cju7s2
because the man has to walk with a stick. And he was very slow. The man has one277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeDH3WHNxb8
hand on the suitcase with faded butterfly stickers and the other stretching out277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ9G91AG4lQ
for the bell that Silence is too slight to reach.
Nothing happens inside the redbrick house for a moment, and then the door is277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfhSHVoCXoI
pulled open. Silence and the boy stare at the woman with milk-like skin, red277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1LE2qy3jRg
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 when277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNk40eEybbF
she spoke to Silence, she did not like children of their so-called gender very277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGycW4B01Mx
much.
The old man says a few words to the woman and turns, leaving Silence behind277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgrV9K2LPoN
him to be ushered inside by the woman with milk skin.
Apprehension, then foreign to little Silence, fills Silence like277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGt0xOPWLog
butterflies, and leap around like butterflies do when caught in a net. The277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrkA8OwW1hj
butterflies leap ever frantically as sharp vocal urgings, push Silence into a277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOkwb1ykaKd
room with a mirror with gold trim and two nightstands of mahogany, and a bed277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNPHhKJCCKo
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 the277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9DCSp6p4EQ
recollection where they felt hungry. There was someone else in the house with277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWAZrRU9nEF
the old woman; another person bigger than Silence. She was milk of skin, but with blonde hair that277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzj6VC90KTF
bounced about in curly springs.
Before the old man had left Silence behind, he had given both the boy and277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq8u8khSlcN
Silence a snack of popcorn and orange slice, to eat in the car. The boy did not277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSFaE28n6fY
like oranges and had thrown the four pieces of orange from the window. Silence277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoryzWW7Lkd
did not throw their orange pieces out of277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhw4VGzvnyJ
the window, and the old man told Silence 277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ14QNzAAVJc
they were very good and the boy was very bad.
Silence walks into the great room where the old woman and the other woman277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4mpFYXA9cA
sit in arm chairs and watch the television. The women are watching Shrek.277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZajJWuHADt
Silence knows they are watching Shrek because there is a green man, a donkey277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWeg96VQmFW
and a pink dragon.
Silence was not hungry in the car, but now the feel their stomach gurgle.277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVLnrtfyPQC
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 at277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqn070L2WLX
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. The277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL9p6E0uc8X
woman with red hair is on her feet now and stands over Silence, before reaching277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPXMXEnvrTh
down to snatch at the snack.
Silence blinks four times as they watch the old woman lumber toward the bin277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUELMCUVKLU
and throw away the food. The one older than Silence, snaps that good children277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbRXOIYFSvY
should always ask for things, and that their mum, who, must be the old woman,277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzHKhzpN8nV
does not believe that children need to have snacks.
The memory begins to roll away. Silence returns To their277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzt8JYKbGdG
room where they sit stripped of clothing and pride, and remembers how the old277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNYck9HPDl1
man did277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQucRdJWr49
not take anything from Silence, when the boy threw his snack out of the car277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7wU42jD2Bf
window. The old man had told Silence they were very good. Then, the think about277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4lNtVZXMRg
how the old woman snatched away the orange slices, and threw them in the bin.277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ06xeazGNw3
Silence realises that really, they must be very bad.
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