Seven minutes? Does she have to be awake during that time? And without laryngitis that forced her to be quiet? Or gagged?

That would be interesting. If she had become a nun and taken a vow of silence (per the original suggestion), I think she would have learned to sign. And if the order didn't have a signed language of their own (many do), she would develop her pidgin and teach it to the other nuns.

Lois Lane is too indomitable and too loquacious to be silenced for long.

Joy,
Lynn