Accidental Surrogate for Alpha
“If I can heal you, why didn’t anyone –“
“Oh, Ella,” Henry says, drawing his hand out of mine. Shocked, I open my eyes, looking into his own. “Ella, my dear, I don’t think it works like that.”
“What?” I ask, surprised.
“I don’t think your gift can heal what has already healed,” he says, shaking his head at me. “A disability like this – it is not an injury. Your gift, from what I’ve learned from your using it, heals what is wrong with my body. But what happened to me so long ago – I’ve healed from it. My body is just different now - I’m not sick.”