“Why?” the first
voice asks, “What was so bad about that?”
“The reactor was
still running,” Castor replies, “I know it was at half power, but
it was still running. There seemed to be no awareness of safety
protocols whatsoever. And that was just the start.”
“How do you mean,
just the start?” the second voice shudders through her.
“Well, to begin with,
they were still following their original timetable,” she tells
them. “The emergency systems shouldn't have been turned off before
the reactor had shutdown. Then the day shift ended, the evening
shift came on, and they didn't seem to know anything about a shutdown
at all.”
“Did you take any
action when you discovered this?”
“I did,” Castor
confirms, “I approached the plant's Chief Executive with my
concerns.”
“How did he react?”
“As if I wasn't
real,” she says, “He sang me a song and drew a field of daisies.”
