by Astralweaver
Aeris never asked for power. On the night he nearly died, something ancient marked him as an Echo Contractor—a rare inheritor of the regrets left behind by the dead. Every contract grants him fragments of a lost life: memories, instincts, skills… and the emotions that come with them. Grief. Rage. Love. Fear. The more echoes he carries, the harder it becomes to remember who he used to be. Some contracts ask for justice.Some ask for forgiveness.Some should never be completed at all. As hidden organizations monitor him and other contractors begin to appear, Aeris realizes the system isn’t just about helping the dead move on. It’s testing them. Shaping them. Deciding what kind of people they will become. And if he inherits too many unfinished lives…there may be nothing left of his own. A slow-burn urban fantasy about identity, memory, and the cost of power.
