Art style: Dark Cartoon.
A narrow staircase with worn carpet and banister in an old house. High angle shot looking down the steps toward a landing. Weak yellow bulb light from above throws sharp angular shadows. Ominous and frightening atmosphere with cold gray and dull yellow palette. Sarah stands at the top of the stairs staring downward with horror on her face.
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FINAL STYLE ENFORCEMENT (this is the authoritative rendering directive — it overrides any style wording elsewhere in the prompt):
Render this image entirely in "Dark Cartoon" style. Match the lighting grammar, material response, colour science, level of realism / stylisation, line weight, and shading model typical of "Dark Cartoon". 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 "Dark Cartoon" idiom, not in any other medium.
Character appearance reference (MUST match exactly):
- Sarah: A woman in her mid-twenties with pale skin, wide fearful eyes, long dark hair falling loose around her face, slender build, wearing a simple white nightgown, standing tense in a dark hallway with hands clutched to her chest, soft cool light from a single window highlighting her worried expression and creating deep shadows around her figure
