The boy reached out, his small hand trembling slightly, and placed it on the man’s knee.
The world went still.
The wind stopped. The chatter faded. Even the traffic seemed to hold its breath.
A warmth spread from the boy’s hand, quiet and impossible. The man’s breath hitched. He felt something—faint, foreign—like electricity made of sunlight moving through his veins.
The numbness in his legs cracked open.
The warmth grew, rising through his body, filling the hollow space where despair used to live.
He gasped. His fingers clenched the sides of his chair. And then—
Movement.
Soft, hesitant, real.
The crowd around them froze.
“He’s… moving,” someone whispered.
The man looked down, tears pooling in his eyes. His legs trembled. His heart raced. And before he could understand how or why—he stood.
He stood.
The world erupted in gasps and cries. Phones lifted. Cameras clicked. But he saw only the boy before him, smiling like he had seen this miracle long before it arrived.
“How… how did you—”
The boy cut him off gently. “Nothing is impossible,” he said. “You just forgot to believe.”
The man fell to his knees—not from weakness, but from awe. He clutched the boy’s shoulders, sobbing, laughter breaking through every breath.
“I was blind in spirit,” he whispered. “But you—you showed me faith.”
The boy’s eyes shimmered like light through water. “I didn’t heal you, sir,” he said. “He did.”
He pointed upward.
And somehow, everyone around felt the truth of that gesture.
That night, the man kept his promise.
He opened the gates of his mansion to the poor, the hungry, the forgotten. The same hands that once signed million-dollar deals now served soup and folded blankets. Every room that had echoed with silence now pulsed with laughter, prayer, and the sound of children’s footsteps.
The boy was gone. Vanished like morning mist.
Some said he’d been seen feeding strays by the church. Others swore he disappeared into thin air after the miracle.
The man searched every alley, every corner of the city. He printed posters. Asked every child he met. No one knew him.
He began to understand: some angels don’t stay for long.
Days turned into weeks. Weeks into months.
But the boy’s touch never left him.
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