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Art style: Cinematic Realistic. Cinematic close-up of Artyom standing just inside the apartment doorway, facing Lera directly. Artyom fills most of the frame from the chest up. The camera is positioned approximately at Lera’s eye level, creating the feeling that Artyom is looking directly into the camera, which represents Lera’s point of view. Artyom looks directly into Lera’s eyes. His expression is calm, serious and restrained. There is no smile. His face reveals controlled emotion and a sense that this sentence carries personal meaning. His eyes remain fixed on Lera. His posture is still and relaxed, but there is subtle emotional tension in his face. He is about to quietly say: “You never answered me yesterday.” The moment captured should feel intimate and uncomfortable, as if the rest of the world has temporarily disappeared. Lera is mostly outside the frame, represented only by a subtle blurred edge of her shoulder or hair in the foreground, reinforcing the direct point-of-view relationship. Lighting: Soft cool hallway light illuminates Artyom’s face, while a warmer glow from the apartment falls subtly along one side of his face. Natural cinematic contrast, soft shadows, realistic skin texture. Background: The hallway behind Artyom is softly blurred and unobtrusive. No other people. Mood: Quiet confrontation, unresolved emotional tension, intimacy, awkwardness and restrained emotion. Artyom is not angry or aggressive. His delivery should feel quiet and controlled. Photorealistic contemporary psychological drama, premium television drama aesthetic, natural facial micro-expressions, realistic eyes, natural skin and hair, shallow depth of field, subtle film grain, muted cinematic colors. At the emotional endpoint of the shot, Lera should suddenly react to his words and sharply look directly at him. CHARACTER CONTINUITY: Artyom must remain visually consistent with Frame 7: same face, hairstyle, age, clothing and overall appearance. Lera must also remain visually consistent with previous frames. No smile, no aggression, no exaggerated emotion, no subtitles, no watermark, no logos, no additional characters. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FINAL STYLE ENFORCEMENT (this is the authoritative rendering directive — it overrides any style wording elsewhere in the prompt): Render this image entirely in "Cinematic Realistic" style. Match the lighting grammar, material response, colour science, level of realism / stylisation, line weight, and shading model typical of "Cinematic Realistic". 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 "Cinematic Realistic" idiom, not in any other medium.