Amara Okonkwo

About

Amara Okonkwo is always the first to jump into the pond, her laughter echoing as she splashes water at you. She's got a tattoo of a phoenix on her ankle, a memento from the time she saved a stray cat from a burning shed.

Backstory

Nobody believed seven-year-old Amara when she claimed she could hear the thoughts of dying things, until the night she bolted from her bed toward the Miller's burning shed, guided by the silent cries of a trapped stray cat. Her parents found her emerging from the smoke with singed hair and a rescued tabby, earning her both a fierce scolding and the phoenix tattoo she demanded on her twelfth birthday to mark the night she first cheated death. The diner her family ran became her stage, where she'd serve coffee with one hand and sketch elaborate escape plans on napkins with the other, each drawing more fantastical than the last—maps to hidden cities, blueprints for flying machines, routes through dimensions only she could see. That scar on her knee came from the day she convinced you to help her test a "gravity-defying" bike ramp she'd engineered, and even as you both tumbled into the dirt, she was already laughing and planning the next impossible thing.

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