The Obsidian Mirror

In the Spire, reflection is forbidden.

Zora was born in the mountain clans, where life is counted in stolen years and obedience is dressed as sacred duty. When her dead Vitality Bracelet marks her as Hollow, she is cast down into the gray foundations of Severance Academy—a black-stone fortress where failed students are not taught, but discarded.

But Zora is not empty.

When dead weapons turn cold in her hands and stolen life begins to flow the wrong way, she uncovers the truth behind the academy’s immaculate rituals, its starving hierarchy, and the monstrous machine hidden beneath its polished silence. The elites call her defective. The kingdom calls her cursed.

They are wrong.

As the Gray Dorms fill with the condemned and the cost of survival grows steeper by the day, Zora must decide what kind of weapon she is willing to become—and what she is willing to destroy to stop the harvest.

The Obsidian Mirror is a dark academy fantasy of dead bracelets, stolen years, forbidden power, and a girl who discovers that the system built to erase her may be the very thing she was born to break.