Heng stood up as n***d as the others, although he had four towels on the table for himself and his family. He had tears in his eyes at the response his call had produced. He held his arms out wide to acknowledge the applause that he was receiving. He gave them a few moments and then called for silence with another motion of his arms.
“Friends, nay, brothers and sisters, I have asked you to come here tonight in celebration of this fine community of ours. We can be rightly proud of what we have achieved but there is stil more that we can do. We are disorganised. In many ways that might be a good thing, but it can also work against us, so I propose that we establish a bat council to promote our interests.
“I am not proposing this to
