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5 IS IT A MAN? IS IT A BIRD? NO! IT’S HENG
When Wan and the kids got up, Heng was stil asleep, completely hidden by the bedding. The fact was that he had not been able to get to sleep until dawn was about to break, but since his family assumed that he needed his sleep for recuperation, no-one thought that there was anything odd about it.
It was gone eleven o’clock when he did surface. He put clean trousers on and went to the mirror to comb his hair and check his face for changes. When he looked in the mirror, he had the second biggest shock of his life, because he was transparent. He wasn’t exactly invisible, because parts of him could be seen in the mirror, but it was like looking at one’s reflection in slowly moving water and he ca
