“Your spirit got so scared and sad that it kind of went to sleep. When your spirit is asleep, sometimes your body doesn’t work right, either.”
“And you think you can wake up my spirit?”
Lily smiled.
“I think your spirit is already starting to wake up. Didn’t you feel it when we were dancing?”
“Yes,”
she whispered.
“Yes, I did feel it.”
“That’s the first step,”
Lily said.
“Tomorrow, can you come back? We can feed the ducks again, and maybe we can dance some more, and I’ll tell you stories about all the beautiful things in the world that are waiting for you to discover them again.”
Catherine nodded.
“Yes, Lily, I’ll come back tomorrow.”
But that very evening, something happened. Robert was making dinner when his phone rang. It was Mrs. Henderson and she sounded frantic.
“Robert, you need to come quickly,”
she said.
“There’s been an accident at the park. It’s about Judge Catherine.”
Robert’s blood turned cold.
“What happened? Is she okay?”
“I don’t know all the details, but someone saw her wheelchair tip over near the pond. They think she might have hit her head. The ambulance is taking her to the hospital right now.”
Robert looked at Lily, who was coloring at the kitchen table. She looked up at him with those knowing green eyes.
“Daddy,”
she said calmly,
“Judge Catherine is going to be okay. But this is the test. This is when we find out if miracles are really real.”
Robert grabbed his keys with shaking hands. If something serious had happened to Judge Catherine, their deal would be over.
“Come on, Lily,”
he said.
“We need to go to the hospital.”
“I know, Daddy,”
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