Never Ask What's The Worst That Can Happen

The universe is a cruel beast. You never taunt it by asking what's the worst that can happen, because even in your mind you can not imagine the worst, but the universe does. The universe always knows the worst, and it's willing to show you it at a moments notice. - Chronicles of Lorentino

The power station was massive. Shira informed me were only seeing one part of it, as it went deep into the planets crust and was geothermal. To me this sounded like "incredibly unstable and could blow up the world" type stuff. Shira ever the machine assured me the technology was stable as the planet was still there and the prison still mostly operating if abandoned. I was glad Shira was here, because while she didn't understand the language, she did understand machines and was able to quickly discern the technical aspects of the reactor and how to power down the energy shield.

"Good news, and bad news."

"What's the good news?"

"I thought people prefered bad news first, that way they can have the balm of the good news afterward?"

"That's stupid, I'd rather hear what's going right, before I hear what's going wrong." Shira shook her head.

"I swear Trezlan you are just contradictory to be contradictory."

"JUST TELL ME THE NEWS!" I tire of people trying to advocate their incorrect right point of view. I am correct, lets move on from there!

"I can turn off the shield, but it will also disable the security in the entire complex, including prisoners. We saw one, there were several thousand more."

"Well shit, is there a way..."

"No, the shield and the prisoners are linked. I imagine this was done intentionally as a fail safe, but I don't understand why, and since I don't understand the language."

"Point taken, well cut the power we'll deal with the consequences."

"Are you sure?"

"Sure what's the worst that can happen?" Of course that's the worst thing to say in this type of situation.