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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 (Artyom + Lastochka): same bold ink linework, flat gouache fills, lubok / icon flatness, ornament. Keep every character exactly on-model — same face, hair, proportions, costume, ornament. ATTACHMENT ORDER: the 1st sheet is ARTYOM: about twenty, shoulder-length dark-blond curtain hair parted in the middle, heavy straight brows, clean-shaven, BROWN leather armor with green-and-gold embroidery, a MOSS-GREEN cloak, a thin red-and-white ribbon on his wrist, and his NAGINATA — a long polearm with a slender curved single-edged blade, small round guard and red-brown wrapped shaft. The 2nd sheet is LASTOCHKA: about twenty-two, ash-blonde hair in a low braid with a woven ribbon, cream embroidered linen shirt, DARK-RED sarafan with a green sash, a swallow charm at her throat. ONLY TWO CHARACTERS: Artyom and Lastochka. Nobody else in the frame. FULL-BLEED: fill the entire frame edge to edge. NO ornamental border, NO frame, NO margins. TEXT: no text or lettering in the image. CAMERA: a medium shot at eye level, the two of them close together at the edge of the rune circle carved flat into the stone ground, its teal runes dim beneath their feet. SCENE: «Let Me Go»: Lastochka «the Swallow» clings to Artyom «Serdtse» with both hands, gripping his arm and the edge of his green cloak, pulling him back toward the circle, her face pale and pleading, eyes full of tears. Artyom has already turned away from her toward the fight: with his free hand he pushes her firmly but gently back behind him, breaking her grip, while his other hand holds the naginata upright, blade high. His jaw is set, his eyes fixed past the edge of the frame toward the battle, where a red-orange glow and flat sparks light the dusk. One foot is already stepping forward off the circle. Pines and carved stone columns behind, red dusk sky. Mood: he chooses to fight for his friends. NEGATIVE: no ornamental frame, no border, no margins, no 3D rendered depth, no photoreal skin, no gloss, no realistic render, no Latin text, no violence toward her, no striking, no one falling, no extra arms, no disembodied hands, no twisted anatomy, no one-handed naginata held like a flag, no sword instead of the naginata, no third character, no demon in the frame.