Rebecca sat in the dining room late that afternoon, her two oldest long time friends gently asking questions she wasn’t ready to answer. She would be lying if she said she remembered everything about that, or why she stopped communicating with them before her accident but there had visited uninvited and there was no way she would send them away, even if that was all she wished to do at the moment.

The soft and warm sun afternoon draped through the tall windows and over the polished ...