The Lives I Burned: The Speculum of Forfeited Paths

An indentured contract conservator who cannot summon binds alternate versions of himself born from the futures he permanently surrenders—discovering that every power-up is an irreversible loss, and his strongest summon wants him dead. In a world where power is grief made physical, Ren Vale must burn his own potential paths to ash in the Speculum of Forfeited Paths to protect what little remains.