The Moral Issue
Ulrich
My parents were actually not that upset about our secret.
Not as upset as Jeremie's or Yumi's parents anyway.
Everyone we saved wants to know what happened, or how long we knew, or something. But the omost common question is always: why?
Why didn't we tell someone? Why didn't we turn Xana doff? Why did we reisk the Earth for one person?
I guess it's time we answer some of those questions.
Why didn't we tell someone? Well, we did, once. No one believed us. So we didn't ell anyone for a while. Then we told someone else. Sissi. Not oo long after that we made our big disappearance. We couldn't go tell anyone. We were too far into it to ever get out. Milly and Timiya found us. We told them not to tell, because we where so far into it. Why did they trust us? I don't know. I don't really care. They did, and that's really all that matters.
Why didn't we turn Xana off? There wasn't really one reason? It started with Aelita. We didn't want to kill her. We could handle Xana. And for a while, we could. Then, things started to get harder. We got caught up in a deeper plot. Things changed. And I can't really say exactly why we kept Xana on. Then we got to Okoyl, and it would have killed Jeremie. And it turned out to be the right decision, even if we didn't know it at the time.
Why did we reik the Earth for one person? Because it was the right thing to do. Because no one died becuase of us that way. No one was killed. We weren't murderers. We weren't going to kill Aelita.
She risked her life for us more times than I can count. More than any of us can count. She sacraficed her safety for us. She even died once.
So it was a fair deal. She risked her life for our world. We risked our world for her life.
Ulrich Stern, age 20
