The light that remains
“I never wanted to live forever.
I just didn’t want you to be left without me.”
What if the person you love dies—
but instead of leaving only memories behind,
he leaves a copy?
Perfect.
Gentle.
Devoted.
But not alive.
Sophia and Elias met as children,
in a world where love felt like sunlight on your cheeks.
They grew up together, played wedding in the backyard—
and one day, they truly married.
They were happy.
Until Elias learned he didn’t have much time left.
And without saying a word,
he created the impossible:
a robotic double to keep loving Sophia even after death.
So children would still be born.
So life could go on.
As if he had never died.
But what happens when love becomes a simulation?
When the body beside you doesn’t tremble with fear, or pain, or flaws.
When everything is perfect—
and none of it is real?
