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Twin marionettes clash mid-air beneath crossed control strings, their articulated oak and ironwood limbs locked in dramatic combat - one styled as a chivalric knight with tarnished silver armor, the other a serpentine dragon puppet spewing embroidered flames. The Baroque puppet theater thrums with energy from gasping spectators whose carved wooden faces glow with flickering footlight reflections, their jointed hands frozen mid-applause. Swirling sawdust motes catch the golden spotlight beams illuminating the duelers' whirling forms, their control rods trembling as invisible puppeteers stage the conflict from shadowed rafters. The scene explodes with motion captured through a low-angle lens emphasizing splintering lances and snapping strings against blood-red velvet curtains, every woodgrain and metallic paint chip rendered in hyperrealistic detail.