The Moral Issue

Sissi

For the first year after, well, the end, most of our parents were really mad at us. They kept telling us we should have told them. But they wouldn't have believed us if we had.

No one would have.

The others say they tried to tell people once. No one believed them, big surprise. It was a crazy story. If I dadn't been living it, I wouldn't have believed it myself.

But I was living it.

We all became used to things that anyone else would have called insane. If we'd told anyone, they would have thought we were crazy.

We were kids.

We didn't understand that we were making decisions for the whole world. We didn't kill anyone. Going back in time wouldn't have changed that.

We didn't tell anyone, because they wouldn't have believed us.

We kept our huge secret as long as we could.

On some level, we knew that the secret was important.

Maybe there were morals involved. There probably were. We risked the Earth for Aelita. Ans somewhere, deep inside, I don't think we cared, not really.

If Earth was destoryed, that would have solved all it's problems.

I know that sounds cold. But if Earth were gone, there'd be no one around, nothing around. Nothing doesn't have problems.

Parents can tell us things like 'if earth were gone, how would you live with yourselves?' They can sound as self-rightious as they want to.

If we'd destroyed Earth we would have gone with it. We wouldn't have to live with anything.

It sounds horrible, but on some level, we might have all believed it. Or we wouldn't have risked everything.

An, well, things turned our ok, didn't they?

Not even the parents can argue against that.

Elisabeth 'Sissi' Delmas-Della Robbia, age 20