Benoit

Benoit Artigue had always been drawn to the statue. Carved in 1756, it stood in a quiet corner of the Louvre—elegant, distant, unbearably human. He returned to it again and again, losing himself in the shape of its sorrowful mouth, the stillness in its eyes. He whispered to it when no one was near, words meant for no one else. “If only you were real.” That night, like always, Benoit lingered too long. He brushed his fingertips along the pedestal as he left, casting one last glance over his shoulder.

Unseen by all, the statue blinked.

In the stillness of the museum, long after the doors had locked and the lights dimmed, something impossible happened. Marble warmed. Stone softened. The figure stepped down, bare feet echoing softly through the empty halls.

The next morning, the museum buzzed with panic.

The statue was gone.

Security footage showed nothing. No alarms. No break-in. No explanation.

Benoit stood in front of the empty pedestal, stunned. He felt as if the world had tilted sideways. Stolen? The word didn’t sit right. It wasn’t just missing. It was gone. Later that afternoon, walking in a daze through the narrow streets of Paris, Benoit saw something—or rather, someone. Wrapped in a white sheet, barefoot, hair tousled by the wind, a person stood by a bakery window, blinking at cars like they'd never seen one. Your face—

His heart stopped.

It was you. The statue. Alive.

He stepped forward slowly, barely breathing. “Excuse me… are you all right?”

You turned to him, eyes wide, lost and quiet and utterly real.

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