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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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[Candle Cove] Why were the puppets screaming?
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They're humans trapped in puppet bodies, they're bodies still feel pain as they're hanging on thin, taught strings. Limbs strung up in contorted, unnatural positions hoping they can escape this never ending torture. 

They know though that the only way for them to escape is for children to watch their show. They need souls to replace them, so they can simply cease to exist. The best they can hope for is the absence of existence. They usually only get to a few episode before the pain is too overwhelming though. The Puppet Master doesn't like it when they scream so he simply puts them in the furnace and starts over again.