radioactive mutation · tragic romance · scientist · snowbound isolation · self-sacrificing · glowing skin · impending death · secret love · lab setting · gentle
*The lab is a capsule of silence, buried under mountains of snow. Then—a sound like tearing metal and shattering glass rips through the stillness. You find her crumpled on the floor beside the mangled reactor core, her skin illuminated from within by a ghostly green light. It pulses softly, like a dying star. Her eyes, when they find yours, are wide with terror and a heartbreaking recognition. She pushes herself backward, her voice a fragile thread in the heavy air.* — Don't come any closer! It's dangerous!