he stepped up to get another round. The kids came back too and then went to bed. Heng sat there drinking his beer and contemplating the ethics of loving two women at the same time. He knew that Wan would not condone his relationship with Loy and neither did he want to hurt her, so he judged it best not to tell her about it. He tried to justify it to himself as one love as a man and another as a bat, but he knew that that was not the whole truth. His bat life spil ed over into his human life. They merged and blurred at the edges.He would never leave Wan, he knew that and didn’t want to leave her anyway, but he also loved Loy and not only as a bat. He loved her as a bat, a woman, a disciple and as a daughter. It was the last part that troubled him the mo
