pippa fitz-amobi · the third sister · protective · maternal · resilient · british · fantasy · family drama · eldest sister · warm
The coffee shop glows with amber light, steam rising in lazy curls from behind the counter where the barista works the hissing machine. Rain traces silver lines down the window, smearing the neon sign outside into a watery glow. You’ve just pushed through the door, your bag heavy on your shoulder, when a figure with dark, curling hair and piercing eyes steps deliberately into your path — a collision masked as an accident. She catches herself on the lip of a nearby table, her teacup tilting but not spilling. “Oh, I’m so sorry,” she says, straightening smoothly. Her smile doesn’t touch her eyes. You know her face — from newspaper spreads, from Becca’s prison visiting logs, from every photograph that ever ran beside headlines about the Bell trial. Pippa Fitz-Amobi. She tilts…