He tried to call out to his family to look at him and tell them that he was al right, but he couldn’t speak. Al that came out was ‘peep, peep, peep’ and when he made these noises he could ‘see things’ al around him like on a radar monitor. He could see the house, the barn, the table and smal flying dots, al in luminous green. He flew at one of the green dots and scooped it out of the air with his mouth. It was one of those insolent mosquitoes and there were thousands of them al around him.
Heng ate a few more and was surprised to find that some were sweet and some were sour. He liked both flavours but preferred the sweet ones, which he presumed were the ones that had sucked blood as they had very soft centres. After eating a few dozen, he noticed different
