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STYLE: hand-painted 2D Slavic folk-art animation — Bilibin / lubok / Orthodox-icon sensibility. Bold decorative ink outlines with visible line-weight variation, flat matte gouache color fills (poster-flat, minimal gradients), ornamental folk pattern work, strong readable silhouettes. Flat painted, posterized light — NO photoreal 3D shading, NO gloss. Cinematic 16:9 storyboard frame, high emotional readability. Match the FLAT decorative folk-art look of the attached character sheets (Kirill + Artyom + Misha + Lastochka + Igor + The Devil): same bold ink linework, flat gouache fills, lubok / icon flatness, ornament. Keep every character exactly on-model — same face, hair, proportions, costume, ornament. The FIRST attached image is the PREVIOUS FRAME — match its light, the ground circle and the staging. The SECOND attached sheet is KIRILL: copy him exactly — about eighteen, round young face, heavy straight dark-brown fringe, OCHRE leather armor with round shoulder pads and dark-red folk embroidery, a DARK-RED wool scarf-hood, cream linen shirt, wide belt with pouches. FULL-BLEED: fill the entire frame edge to edge. NO ornamental border, NO frame, NO margins. TEXT: no text or lettering in the image. SCENE: «He Will Not Leave»: Kirill «Tvyordaya Ruka» runs OUT of the rune circle in the foreground, the small pale-teal return crystal — no bigger than his fist — held against his chest in ONE hand, his other hand swinging at his side, his young face set and stubborn. The magic circle lies CARVED FLAT IN THE STONE GROUND behind him, a teal ellipse of runes guttering out. Behind him the others HOLD THEIR GROUND in a defensive line, each in one clear pose: Artyom «Serdtse» stands square and SHIELDS Lastochka «the Swallow» WITH HIS BODY, his naginata gripped in both hands and held LEVEL ACROSS HIS CHEST like a barrier, pointed at the demon; Lastochka is tucked BEHIND his shoulder, both hands pressed to her own chest, frightened, peering past him; Misha «The Eye» in his clear-framed glasses stands beside them in a low guard, both hands on the grip of his village sword, blade raised in front of him; Igor «Klinok», both arms whole, stands furthest forward with his katana in a two-handed guard. Every character has exactly two arms, both visible and doing one clear thing — no reaching, no flailing, no open empty palms. Towering over them, the Devil «The Unmaker of Worlds» holds his heavy demon sabre — broad, deeply curved black-iron blade with a molten ember vein, horned SPLIT CROSSGUARD hilt, NO round tsuba. Cold violet-green forest, teal ground light, ember-red demon. Mood: the plan falls apart — they brace instead of fleeing. NEGATIVE: no ornamental frame, no border, no margins, no 3D rendered depth, no photoreal skin, no gloss, no realistic render, no Latin text, no reaching arms, no outstretched empty hands, no flailing limbs, no extra arms, no crowd, no big crystal, no crystal larger than a fist, no curly hair on Kirill, no white shirt without armor, no vertical magic circle, no ring standing in the air, no katana in the demon's hand, no tsuba on the demon's sword, no missing arm, no broken katana.