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Short film inspired by the book The Assassin's Blade by Sarah J. Maas
Transcript
00:00In a world where history bends beneath the weight of forbidden magic, one assassin mage faces an impossible choice.
00:10Celine Dre, assassin mage, moves through gilded halls and flickering lamplight, her every step shadowed by betrayal and the lure of temporal power.
00:20As President Lincoln takes the stage at Ford's Theatre, Celine's forbidden spell weaves through the air, threatening to unravel the threads of fate.
00:29With a surge of temporal magic, Lincoln is cast forward in time from the echoing applause of the past to the unrest and hope of Selma, Alabama.
00:38Celine stands alone, haunted by visions of altered destinies and the price of tampering with fate.
00:44Can any magic justify the cost of rewriting history?
00:47Rain slicks the cobblestones outside. Inside, the crowd laughs and applauds our American cousin.
00:53In the rafters above the stage, Celine Dre, a young assassin mage with a scar across her cheek and cold eyes, moves like smoke.
01:01Her master, the elusive Aramis Vale, head of the Shadow Guild, ordered her to protect President Lincoln at all costs.
01:09But Vale's reasons are unclear, and Celine suspects there's more at play.
01:13Her partner, Samael Quinn, a roguish, idealistic assassin who secretly loves her, waits below the box, keeping watch.
01:21Celine spots John Wilkes Booth slipping toward the President's balcony. Her pulse quickens.
01:26She recites an ancient spell under her breath, a temporal displacement charm forbidden by the Guild.
01:32It's supposed to remove a target from harm's reach. Booth raises his pistol, a flash, a bang, screams.
01:40Celine finishes the incantation and for a heartbeat, time stops. The world drains of color.
01:45All except for the President's chair, now empty. Booth is unconscious on the floor and Lincoln has vanished.
01:51Celine's hands tremble.
01:53It worked, she whispers.
01:55But Samael's expression hardens.
01:57You didn't anchor the spell, did you?
01:59Then realization hits her. She didn't bind time. She didn't send Lincoln away. She sent him forward.
02:05Celine and Samael retreat to the hidden tunnels beneath the theater.
02:09The magic's toll is already visible, veins of black energy spreading up Celine's neck.
02:15Samael begs her to rest, but she's obsessed with finding out where and when Lincoln went.
02:20Using an old spell map, she calculates the rift's echo. April 14, 1965.
02:26The spell sent the President 100 years into the future.
02:29Celine remembers that era. She's been there once before, on a mission gone wrong.
02:34A time of riots, marches, and blood.
02:37He'll never survive there, she says.
02:39Samael argues. Then let him live. Let time decide his fate. We've done enough.
02:45But Celine can't. She disobeyed the Guild.
02:48If Vale learns she tampered with temporal magic, both of them will be executed.
02:52Worse, the Guild may already be tracking the rift to use Lincoln as a pawn in their own power games.
02:58They fight, not with swords, but with conviction.
03:01Samael's words echo.
03:03You save kings and tyrants, but never yourself.
03:06As the rift begins to destabilize, Celine makes her choice.
03:09With her remaining strength, she draws another circle, ignoring Samael's pleas.
03:14I'm going after him, she whispers.
03:16Then, with a final spark of power, she disappears into the fold of time.
03:20Celine stumbles into the blinding sunlight of a new century.
03:23Soldiers, protests, and chaos everywhere.
03:26She hides beneath a cloak, searching for the displaced President.
03:30Finally, in a small church filled with activists, she finds him.
03:34Abraham Lincoln, aged and confused, speaking quietly with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
03:39The two men talk about freedom, equality, and the endless fight for justice.
03:44Lincoln's words echo his past, and the future that never was.
03:48Celine stays in the shadows, realizing the truth.
03:51Her spell didn't break history, it fulfilled it.
03:54She didn't save Lincoln for his time.
03:56She saved him for this one.
03:58A faint voice behind her, Aramis Vale.
04:01He followed her through the rift.
04:03You've changed fate, Celine. You've doomed us all.
04:06He draws his blade.
04:08Samael appears through the collapsing portal, wounded but alive.
04:12He takes the strike meant for her.
04:14Celine's scream shakes the air.
04:16Light and shadow collide, consuming both assassins and time itself.
04:20When the light fades, the church is empty, the portal gone.
04:23A torn page of a spellbook flutters to the floor.
04:26History is a blade, sharp, merciless, and inevitable.
04:30But if I could hold it one more time, I'd still choose to bleed.
04:34Cut to a photograph on the church wall.
04:36Lincoln and Dr. King standing side by side.
04:39A moment that never happened, yet somehow always was.
04:42Fate and free will collide in a world where history is not a fixed line,
04:46but a living force shaped by those bold enough to bend its flow.
04:49Celine Dre, an assassin mage, dares to challenge destiny itself.
04:54Redemption is never simple.
04:56Every spell cast to change destiny demands a price.
04:59Celine's forbidden magic brings moral consequences she cannot escape,
05:04as the theater's golden glow flickers with danger.
05:07The cost of changing destiny is steep.
05:10In a moment suspended by spell light,
05:12President Lincoln is torn from Ford's theater
05:14and thrust into the heart of 1960's Selma, Alabama.
05:18History's course forever altered.
05:21Love must sometimes be sacrificed for the greater good.
05:24Celine's heart aches as she lets Lincoln go,
05:27knowing her actions may save many,
05:29but cost her everything she holds dear.
05:32History breathes and transforms.
05:34Chandeliers become streetlights.
05:36Applause turns to protest chants.
05:38The past and present mirror each other,
05:40forever changed by the hand of an assassin mage.
05:43I never love again.
05:53I never loved again.
05:54I never loved again.
05:59Yeah, yeah, yeah.
06:00And the answer was,
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