2D animated storyboard frame, matching the drawing style of the reference images: clean confident ink linework, flat cel colours with soft cinematic lighting and gentle graphic-novel shading, stylised but grounded proportions, expressive faces. Characters must match their reference model sheets. Two vast pillars of burning-white light stand either side of Voss and Elias Thorne without touching them; Voss strains against nothing, Thorne's white-metal staff sagging like wax in his grip; the ground before them opened to an immense distance below where a lake of fire glows like an unending sunset, its red-orange light on Voss's upturned face, his mouth open on a question he does not ask; separation, not monsters. No text, no letters, no logos, no captions.
