Red silk billows over a drowned parquet floor, gilded mirrors lining the hall.

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Red silk billows over a drowned parquet floor, gilded mirrors lining the hall.

Stage the sunken scene.

cinematic film still: a woman in a long red dress standing weightless on the tilted parquet floor of a sunken ballroom, hair and silk lifted upward by the water, rows of gilded mirrors along the walls catching a faint green surface glow, dust and plankton drifting like slow snow, deep teal darkness above, single centered figure, high contrast, the dress hem curling like flame in the current