The Moral Issue

Odd

I'm not going to try to justify what we did or why. Justifying it isn't going to help us now. What's done is done.

But I'll do my best to explain it.

We were young. Back Then, we wouldn't have called ourselves young. We were thirteen. Well, Yumi was fourteen, but we were still teenagers, though only barely. We were so young.

We had no idea what we were getting ourselves into. We were saving the world. It was like a game. A great big video game. We were kids. We were having fun, getting off on the adrenaline rush and the fighting. What kid wouldn't want to be a hero.

For the most part, none of us really understood what was going on. We knew Lyoko was another universe, but we didn't understand how we got there and back. Jeremie did. Aelita did. Sometimes I think Yumi did, too. But most of us had no idea.

The morals behind it? What were morals?

They didn't apply. We were playing a game. It was a game with lives, but we didn't really understand.

We learned as we went. We learned aout the morals, and how they should have applied.

But by then it was too late.

We were too deeply entangled.

Aelita was alive. We knew it as sertainly as we knew we were alive.

We were kids, not murders.

Not consciously, of course, we decided that a few inderect deaths would be better than murder.

It isn't justification.

I know better than that. I can't justify everything we did. There's no way. I can explain it, as best as I can. But be understand now.

Now that's we're no longer kids.

Odd Della Robbia, age 20