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Art style: DreamWorks-inspired. WORLD MAP of a Victorian servants' corridor at night, first frame framed as a WIDE shot from a LOW ANGLE. Named anchors: (A) a long narrow oak-panelled CORRIDOR running away from camera into deep blue-black shadow, roughly two arm-spans wide, floorboards worn pale down the centre; (B) a row of BRASS GAS LAMPS mounted at head height along the left wall, small teardrop flames hissing behind sooty glass, each throwing a shallow amber pool onto the panelling; (C) a dark STAIRWELL MOUTH at the far end of the corridor, a square black opening with a carved newel post catching one lamp's glow; (D) a low WOODEN CEILING with exposed beams pressing down close overhead, emphasised by the low camera; (E) a framed patch of faded floral WALLPAPER peeling at a seam on the right wall midground. BLOCKING (two named characters in frame): Evelyn stands at anchor A in the MIDGROUND, CENTRE of frame, level with the Housemaid Girl, her BODY FACING SCREEN-RIGHT toward the Housemaid Girl who has just caught her arm; her head half-turned back toward camera, wide-eyed, mouth parted mid-question. Housemaid Girl stands at anchor A slightly nearer camera in the FOREGROUND, SCREEN-RIGHT third, level with Evelyn, her BODY FACING SCREEN-LEFT toward Evelyn, one hand gripping Evelyn's forearm, the other flung back toward the stairwell C. Between them: a hand's clutch on a forearm, no gap. Behind both, in the deep BACKGROUND at anchor C, three or four indistinct maid silhouettes rush away from camera toward the stairwell, blurred by motion and shadow. CAMERA: side-on to the corridor axis, placed LOW near the floorboards, eye at knee height, tilted very slightly UP (never canted, frame upright), 24mm wide lens looking down the corridor toward the stairwell so the ceiling beams D loom and the gas lamps B recede in a converging line. EYELINE: Evelyn looks SCREEN-RIGHT and slightly toward camera at the Housemaid Girl's frightened face; Housemaid Girl looks SCREEN-LEFT at Evelyn while gesturing back at the stairwell. AXIS: the 180-degree line runs down the corridor between the left lamp wall and the right wallpaper wall; camera sits on the right-wall side, so Evelyn reads centre-left, the Housemaid Girl right-foreground, the fleeing maids receding dead centre. RELATIONS ARE PHYSICAL: the Housemaid Girl clutches Evelyn's arm and points away toward the stairs — a grab plus a point, opposed vectors — while the background maids all flee the same single direction away from camera, marking them as one fleeing party. INSTANT frozen at t=0: the Housemaid Girl's fingers close on Evelyn's forearm, her mouth open on the first word, gas flames streaming sideways from the rush of passing bodies. FRAME CONSEQUENCE: the low 24mm wide lens throws long converging lines, the two foreground/midground women fill the lower centre-right, the black stairwell swallows the vanishing point, small blurred figures top the frame. SETTING: cramped below-stairs passage, cold blue-black shadow pooled between warm amber lamp-halos, heavy oak panelling, a threadbare runner underfoot, brass fittings dulled with age. LIGHTING: sole light from the gas lamps B — low, warm amber, guttering and directional from the left wall, carving hard contact shadows under the beams and leaving the corridor depth in near-total blue-black; a clock-tick tension implied. MOOD: breathless nocturnal alarm, dread rushing toward the stairs. CHARACTER ACTION & EXPRESSION: Evelyn disoriented, brows knotted, caught mid-turn; Housemaid Girl terrified, breathless, urgent. COLORS: candle-amber, sooty brass gold, deep blue-black, muted dust-grey. TEXTURES & MATERIALS: worn oak grain, sooted glass lamp chimneys, peeling wallpaper seam, dull brass, scuffed floorboards. DEPTH & LAYERS: foreground — Housemaid Girl's gripping hand and shoulder; midground — Evelyn turning; background — fleeing maid silhouettes and the black stairwell mouth. WEATHER & PARTICLES: fine dust and hair strands drifting in the lamp glow, faint gas-flame smoke haze. MICRO-DETAILS: teardrop flame reflections on sooty glass, a lamp flame bent by passing air, a scuffed pale track worn down the runner's centre. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 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: Dynamic stylized 3D animation, confident expressive characters, playful attitude, bold facial expressions, cinematic lighting, lively energetic composition. Every surface, skin, fabric, material, and environmental element must be rendered in this idiom. 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: - Evelyn / Alice: white full-length apron with lace trim, grey-blue long-sleeved dress with white Peter Pan collar and lace chest panel, grey-blue full-length dress skirt (same garment as top), not visible beneath full-length dress, white frilled mob cap with ruffled edge (white lace collar with scalloped edge; lace trim at apron chest; white lace cuffs at wrists) - Housemaid Girl: white full-length apron with waist tie, black long-sleeved dress with white lace collar, black dress (full-length, part of the same garment as top), black laced ankle boots, white ruffled mob cap (white lace-trimmed collar; iron key ring at apron waist; grey-striped towel)