Bright

"And how are you feeling today?"
"Don't eat that chair."
She smiled at the doctor but the smile never quite reached her eyes.
She had known the grim truth as soon as she had seen the bright flash. Walking dead woman. Yet somehow, she has survived far beyond all expectations.
Death might have been kinder than what the proton beam from the malfunctioning particle accelerator had inflicted. Her mind, her greatest asset, the only thing she truly could be proud of, was imprisoned behind a wall of aphasia, unable to communicate, to reach out.
"Ten kilos of eels walked away."