Create an illustration inspired by Edward Gorey's style, depicting the characters from the image with intricate cross-hatching and fine detailing. Use cross-hatching to add shadows, texture, and depth, emphasizing the checkered patterns, the folds in clothing, and the overall motion of the running figures. Render the costumes and facial features with meticulous linework, creating subtle gradients to give a sense of three-dimensionality, characteristic of Gorey’s detailed storytelling. Design the characters with simplified yet evocative facial expressions, maintaining a slightly neutral or enigmatic look that evokes an atmosphere of uncanny excitement. The figures should have exaggerated proportions and distinct silhouettes, reflecting a whimsical yet subtly unsettling quality that defines Gorey's style. Include attire that draws from early 20th-century fashion with a surreal or exaggerated twist, adding a timeless and otherworldly feel. Place the characters against a minimalistic background, emphasizing negative space to enhance the focus on their movement and expressions. Incorporate symbolic motifs such as checkered patterns, hats, or swirling smoke, rendered with fine linework, to add a deeper narrative or symbolic meaning. Use a predominantly monochromatic palette, focusing on the interplay between dark and light, with cross-hatching used to create strong contrasts and evoke a sense of tension, excitement, and quiet unease--typical of Gorey's work.