She stared at Raven in a long second of shocked silence, before sagging to the floor.
If God could do things like that, the world wouldn__ look the way it does. He can__ reach down and change things. He can__ stop any of us doing what we choose to do.'__hat use is he then?__enone shrugged. 'He sees. He understands. He knows how you__e feeling. He knows how Theo felt. He knows how it feels to die. And when we die, we go to him.''To the Sunless Country, you mean? Like ghosts?_'Oenone shook her head patiently. 'Like children. Do you remember what it was like to be a tiny child? When everything was possible and everything was given to you, and you knew that you were safe and loved, and the days went on forever? When we die, it will be like that again. That__ how it is for Theo now, in heaven.
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If God could do things like that, the world wouldn__ look the way it does. He can__ reach down and change things. He can__ stop any of us doing what we choose to do.'__hat use is he then?__enone shrugged. 'He sees. He understands. He knows how you__e feeling. He knows how Theo felt. He knows how it feels to die. And when we die, we go to him.''To the Sunless Country, you mean? Like ghosts?_'Oenone shook her head patiently. 'Like children. Do you remember what it was like to be a tiny child? When everything was possible and everything was given to you, and you knew that you were safe and loved, and the days went on forever? When we die, it will be like that again. That__ how it is for Theo now, in heaven.
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