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Art style: Cinematic Realistic. Medium shot at the store's closed glass door from outside. Eli's left hand is on the door and the phone is in his right. Fluorescent store light flickers inside. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 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. 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: - ELI MERCER: and centered — Eli Mercer, a seventeen-year-old boy, lean and slightly tall with the unfinished build of a teenager. Fair skin with faint freckles, tired hazel eyes with shadows beneath, dark tousled brown hair that falls over his forehead, no facial hair, a few small scratches on one cheek. He wears a grey hooded zip-up over a faded navy t-shirt, dark slim jeans worn at the knees, and scuffed white-and-grey sneakers, laces loosely tied. A cracked smartphone is clutched in one hand, its screen faintly lit. His expression is alert and frightened, lips parted mid-breath, as he glances over his shoulder. He stands alone in the middle of a deserted Grayhaven street at dawn — abandoned cars, open shop doors, pale empty sky filling the sides behind him.