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He helped her to her feet. "That a real miracle doesn’t break the laws of physics," he said. "It breaks the laws of economics. You can’t buy it, you can’t own it, and it never happens to the person who deserves it. It happens to the person who needs it."

Kaelen stared at Matteo, her tears turning from grief to wonder. neo-miracle

They never saw the two people walking out of the church, hand in hand, carrying something far more valuable than any patent. He helped her to her feet

Outside, the "Neo-Miracles" had made a wasteland of faith. You can’t buy it, you can’t own it,

Matteo looked at his empty church. The stained glass showed a man turning water into wine—a trick any nano-chemist could now perform. He felt a fraud.

Just a child, made whole by nothing but a whispered word and a pair of clasped hands.