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Art style: realistic mystical horror, summer heat and dust by day, cold moonlight at night, eerie quiet village. Close-up: Matryona staring up, fingers on the quilt. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FINAL STYLE ENFORCEMENT (this is the authoritative rendering directive — it overrides any style wording elsewhere in the prompt): Render this image entirely in "realistic mystical horror, summer heat and dust by day, cold moonlight at night, eerie quiet village" style. Match the lighting grammar, material response, colour science, level of realism / stylisation, line weight, and shading model typical of "realistic mystical horror, summer heat and dust by day, cold moonlight at night, eerie quiet village". Keep the subject, composition, camera angle, lighting direction, and colour palette from the description above — but EVERY surface, skin, fabric, material, and environmental element must be rendered in the "realistic mystical horror, summer heat and dust by day, cold moonlight at night, eerie quiet village" idiom, not in any other medium. Reference images context (match the visual style and elements from these): - Dusty Village Rut (location): Empty rural dirt road with deep dry wheel ruts cutting through an eerie, silent village in summer heat. Cracked earth, pale dust hanging in the air, sun-bleached grass and wilted weeds along the edges. Weathered wooden fences and crooked old log houses with dark, shuttered windows. No people, no animals. Harsh white midday sun in a hazy, washed-out sky, shimmering heat distortion over the road. Realistic mystical horror atmosphere, oppressive stillness, faint sense of being watched, muted ochre and grey tones, cinematic wide shot, no text. WARDROBE LOCK — authoritative. Render each character in EXACTLY this outfit, matching their attached reference image. This OVERRIDES any clothing, fabric, texture or colour word describing a character anywhere else in this prompt — do NOT invent other garments: - Матрёна: black knitted shawl with fringe trim, cream-colored loose long-sleeved tunic shirt, long black skirt to ankles, woven straw fiber shoes (lapti-style), black headscarf tied under chin (heavy fringe on shawl edges; wooden walking stick held in both hands; traditional woven straw footwear) - Алина: olive green button-up shirt tied at waist, white ribbed tank top, medium-wash distressed blue jeans with rolled cuffs, off-white canvas low-top sneakers (shirt tied in knot at waist; visible dirt and wear on all garments; tan canvas backpack with leather straps)