{
  "title": "A Light to Share",
  "kind": "Original three-page fictional story with authored prose and separately generated illustrations",
  "characterAnchors": "Small brown mole, round pink nose, round glasses, mustard raincoat and teal satchel",
  "pages": [
    {
      "number": 1,
      "title": "Across the water",
      "beat": "A need is discovered",
      "text": "Milo carried a lantern along the pond. Its light made a little golden circle around his boots. Across the water, a hedgehog waited under the leaves. Milo lifted the lantern. A small paw lifted back.",
      "visualCheck": "Mole with lantern near water and hedgehog across the pond"
    },
    {
      "number": 2,
      "title": "A way across",
      "beat": "The character acts on the need",
      "text": "Milo followed the bank until the water grew narrow. He found a broad fallen board and laid it across the stream. Then he set the lantern beside the crossing. The path was small, but now it could be seen.",
      "visualCheck": "Mole leaning on a broad board across a stream beside a lantern"
    },
    {
      "number": 3,
      "title": "Enough for two",
      "beat": "The action changes the ending",
      "text": "Soon two friends sat beneath the leaves. The hedgehog leaned toward the warmth. Milo had not found a bigger lantern. He had found a place to put the one he had. Its little golden circle was enough for two.",
      "visualCheck": "Mole and hedgehog together with shared lantern light"
    }
  ],
  "limits": "Illustration requests do not prove exact character continuity or physical print quality. Review the actual artwork before accepting each page. This is not a Gemini or FlipHTML5 output."
}