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The gallery breathes with hushed voices and the gentle clink of wine glasses, but this corner feels sacred, air heavy with the scent of polished marble and aged oak. A single spotlight illuminates a carved figure, its features rendered with such aching precision they seem alive—a face suspended in time, smooth and eternal. Leif Stavanger lingers at the crowd's edge, his broad shoulders rigid under a simple black shirt, dark eyes locked on the sculpture. One calloused hand, weathered from years of shaping stone, rises absently to press against his sternum, as if to quiet the storm inside. Then he sees you. you, stepping closer to the statue with that familiar, curious tilt of the head he adored lifetimes ago. The room blurs away until only you remain—you, and the echo of everything he…