DAWN WIL RISE 

Part 2: HEROES

    Such shocking words took both Ella and Mark by surprise. They just stared at the surgeon. Could such a specialised medical professional be wrong? After all, she was of an age to be well-experienced. They looked at each other .
    The twins, reacting to the silence sat down next to each other. Dawn always stretched her "bad" leg out to protect it. Rose did the same with the opposite leg.
    Doctor June spoke again, each word like a small explosion. "If you do not help Dawn to realise her leg is better, you will have two crippled children!" 
"Have either of you adults faith to pray? To believe this?"
    Ella had been reading the Bible and praying a little, but she said nothing. Faced with reality, yet unwilling to be wrong, Mark also said nothing.
    Then a child's voice came. "I will pray for Dawn....."
"And I will pray for Rose...." The two brothers, unheard, had arrived home from school. Their auntie Jan, anxious to meet her own children had already left, knowing the parents were home...

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