“It appears that way.” The drone in the doctor’s coat appeared to be speaking in time with the words appearing on the tablet, because Melody imagined she could start to hear as it spoke. “I cannot determine how. The tissue in that region of your brain is not inconsistent with the tissue of the rest of your body. There are no dissolved volatiles or energy-storage medium of any kind. The force required to produce the detonation we observed could not possibly have been stored within Martin’s body. My working theory is that the unique region of the brain was somehow the target of the attack, rather than the creator of it.”