The Relative Who Materialises
Every family has a season for them. It arrives with a property document, a hospital bed, or the reading of a will. Before that, they were a name on a group message, a face at a wedding five years ago, a voice that promised to visit. Then something is about to be divided, and they are suddenly, completely present. They know the layout of the house. They have opinions about fairness. They remember everything that was ever owed to anyone.
