21:40, a voice you know
A voice note from a number you do not have. It is your brother, there has been an accident, and it uses the name only the family uses. The account details come in a name you have never heard, and his own line rings out.
Branching, and constrained: an early decision closes options later on. There is no undo inside a run. That is the point of running one rather than reading about it.
21:40. A voice note arrives on WhatsApp from a number you do not have. It is your brother Tunde. He is breathing badly and he says there has been an accident on Ikorodu Road, he is at a hospital, his phone is dead, and they will not admit him without a deposit of 180,000 naira.
He calls you Two, which is what the family has called you since you were a child, because you were the second, and nobody outside the house uses it.
A second message follows with an account number and a name, Ifeanyi K. Bello. Tunde's own line rings out twice.
The voice is his and the name is one only the family uses.
