“I’ll give you a million if you cure me.” The billionaire chuckles… until the unthinkable happens.

Silence enveloped the courtyard. It seemed like reverence. Bella finished: “If we all tried, even just a little, to heal the world instead of ourselves, paralysis would have no power. Not in the spine. Not in society. Not anywhere.”

The audience clutched their hearts. Even the most ardent skeptics bowed their heads. Rafael stood tall. There was no wheelchair behind him.

She whispered to the wind, “I deserve to heal.”

The wind responded with calm certainty. So did everyone else.