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Art style: Dark Comic. Inside a child's bedroom, the walls are painted a soft lavender, now turned to a ghostly grey by the moonlight. A small bed with rumpled white linens sits in the center of the frame. A young boy is huddled in the middle of the mattress, his knees pulled to his chest and his eyes wide with terror. A man stands in the doorway, his silhouette framed by the hallway light, his hands reaching out tentatively. The shot is a medium-wide angle from the corner of the room. The color palette is composed of desaturated blues, violets, and deep shadows. The mood is one of heartbreaking vulnerability and sharp, crystalline fear. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FINAL STYLE ENFORCEMENT (this is the authoritative rendering directive — it overrides any style wording elsewhere in the prompt): Render this image in the following art style: dark graphic-novel illustration — gritty comic book art style, heavy black inking, bold outlines, detailed cross-hatching and dramatic shading. Exaggerated character features, intense expressions, deep wrinkles, highly defined musculature. High contrast lighting. Desaturated grim background colors (grays, browns) with stark contrasting pop-color elements. Satirical and edgy atmosphere, masterpiece comic art. Every surface, skin, fabric, material, and environmental element must be rendered in this idiom. Character appearance reference (MUST match exactly): - Elias: A man in his mid-30s with rugged features, a short-cropped brown beard, and tired, sunken eyes reflecting intense anxiety. He is wearing a worn, dark grey flannel shirt over a plain white t-shirt and slightly faded denim jeans. His hair is messy, as if he has been running his hands through it in stress. He has a sturdy build but carries himself with a frantic, hunched posture. The lighting is harsh and directional, casting deep shadows across his face, highlighting the beads of sweat on his forehead against a backdrop of a dimly lit, ordinary home interior. - Leo: A seven-year-old boy with a small, fragile frame and messy, sun-bleached blonde hair. He is wearing light blue cotton pajamas with a faint pattern of small dinosaurs. His face is pale, with wide, watery blue eyes and visible tear streaks down his cheeks. His lower lip is trembling, and his expression is one of pure, wide-eyed shock and vulnerability. He is sitting huddled on a bed with rumpled white sheets. The atmosphere around him is cold and shadowy, with a soft, eerie glow from a nearby nightlight providing the only illumination.