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Art style: Realistic cinematic live-action, high-seas pirate thriller. Inside a cramped chart room lit by one swinging oil lamp, Elias discovers a hidden message beneath the chart while Mara watches the doorway. Close composition, damp wood, ink-stained fingers, suspenseful shadows. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FINAL STYLE ENFORCEMENT (this is the authoritative rendering directive — it overrides any style wording elsewhere in the prompt): Render this image entirely in "Realistic cinematic live-action, high-seas pirate thriller" style. Match the lighting grammar, material response, colour science, level of realism / stylisation, line weight, and shading model typical of "Realistic cinematic live-action, high-seas pirate thriller". 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 cinematic live-action, high-seas pirate thriller" idiom, not in any other medium. Character appearance reference (MUST match exactly): - Captain Mara Vane: on weathered deck boards. Captain Mara Vane is a woman in her mid-thirties, sun-weathered olive skin, a strong angular face with a faint scar across one cheekbone, sharp hazel eyes, and a dry half-smirk. Dark windswept hair in a loose braid with escaped strands. Lean, athletic build. She wears a worn burgundy longcoat over a linen shirt, a leather bandolier and belt rig, dark breeches, and scuffed knee-high buckled leather boots. One hand rests on a cutlass hilt, a flintlock holstered at her hip. Confident wide stance, chin lifted, guarded resolve in her gaze under overcast skies and salt spray. - Elias Reed: on the wet planked deck of a weathered sailing ship, a wooden helm and grey storm-lit ocean filling the sides. Elias Reed is a lean young man in his early twenties, around 5'10", with a wiry agile build. He has a narrow sun-weathered face, light tan skin, a sharp jaw with faint stubble, keen grey-blue eyes and tousled dark-brown hair pushed back by sea wind. He wears a loose off-white linen shirt open at the collar, a worn brown leather waistcoat, a wide cloth sash, dark canvas breeches and scuffed knee-high leather boots. A brass navigator's compass hangs at his belt beside a rolled chart. His weight shifts cautiously, expression guarded and watchful, torn between resolve and suspicion.