‘I’ve come to see that perhaps my boy was fulfilling the purposes of God,’ she said. ‘That you couldn’t have stopped him, because God wanted him to go to the pequeninos to set in motion the miracles that have come since then.’ She wept. ‘Miro came to me. Healed,’ she said. ‘Oh, God is merciful after all. And I’ll have Quim again in heaven, when I die.’ She’s been converted, thought Ender.
