and that they could buy bottles of it from her father who mixed it himself according to a family recipe. This was not far from the truth, since many people did use recipes that their father had used and so did Heng.
Some time after dinner, Heng told his family that he was going for a flight, leaving them talking on the big table and the guests laughing, telling stories and drinking beer at theirs. He flew to the Nuamnoi household where he saw the girl lying on the big table being tended by her mother.
She was deathly pale and her eyes were closed. Heng could not determine her condition but she looked il . He wanted to talk to Da about her but he didn’t want to miss Loy either, so he went to her house first, hoping to make some sort of appointment. She was d
