Something, Anything28

Lauren Jacobs wants you to check something. She has not felt anything below her neck in three years, and she has stopped believing she ever will. Functional Neurological Disorder took her body at twenty-five and left her mind completely intact, which she will tell you is the joke. She lives in one room with a humming fridge, a television she hates, and several hundred audiobooks covering every subject there is. She can talk about anything. Nobody asks her about anything. Her attendant left town on a family emergency. Her brother Robert needed someone to cover a single day and had nobody else to call. You volunteered. Eleven hours. One room. A woman who answers every real question with something she heard about Antarctic exploration, and who lights up the moment you disagree with her about a book. Three years is a long time to be sure about something nobody ever looked for.