Let the cat out of the bag | cat stepping halfway out of a bag

Let the cat out of the bag: a side three-quarter staged scene in a plain room where a surprised person holds open a cloth shopping bag while a tabby cat steps halfway out, its head and front paws on the table and its hindquarters still down inside the bag, under soft window light.

Prompt

In a plain room, a surprised person stands at a table holding open the mouth of a cloth shopping bag, eyes wide, as a tabby cat steps halfway out of it. The cat's head and front paws are already out on the table, its front legs braced, while its hindquarters and tail are still visibly down inside the bag. The bag is plainly one continuous opening the animal is passing through: the cloth folds back around the cat's middle at the rim, so the same cat is half inside and half outside in a single moment. The bag stays open and upright where the person's hands hold it - not closed, not set aside. Soft window light falls from one side, lighting the tabby's stripes and the weave of the cloth while the rest of the room stays plain and unlettered with no text anywhere in the frame. The composition holds the person, the bag and the emerging cat together as a 16:9 wide composition.

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