Pip

Pip is the name of two cats, both of which had been owned by November Terra, a scion of the Old Families.

Pip I
The first Pip was a Siamese cat owned by a young November "Nova" Terra for two weeks. It didn't get along with anyone other than Nova. Eventually her family had to get rid of the cat, which they did by giving it to Rebeka, their hair dresser.

Nova held great affection for the cat, and visited Rebeka (in order to see Pip) as often as was socially proper.

Pip II
Nova, distraught at the deaths of her family and many other innocents, fled into the Gutter, a downtrodden area of Tarsonis City. She was targeted by the crime lord Fagin, who wanted to use her recently-gained telepathic abilities for himself. While starving to death in an alley, she met a very filthy tabby cat missing half of its left ear, which she also dubbed "Pip".

Nova's telepathy enabled her to read the cat's mind, which she used as a form of practice. Pip thought of Nova as a "big hairless cat".

Nova eventually gained the resolve to fight back against her situation, stealing food from a store to feed herself ... and Pip. However, she was eventually enslaved by Fagin. She begged him to leave her compound so she could visit Pip, but Fagin would never allow her to do so.