The Moral Issue
Milly
I can't really say anything for what went on before I joined them. I'm not even sure quite what I can say about what hapened after that.
They told me it was a secret. Well, they told Timiya and me. I can't say quite why we trusted them. Maybe it was the way they talked.
They knew what they were doing. We could tell. They were telling us the truth. We knew that from the beginning. They wouldn't tell us a story like that if it weren't true. And it explained so may things.
Maybe we just wanted to know more.
They said they could rease our memories. At the time, we didn't know how. Now we know, they could have reset time.
It was an amazing story. And once we'd been there, we knew beyond a doubt that it was treu, and we knew that no one would believe us.
Sure, they'd come to the factory. They wouldn't believe us about anything else. They would have shut Xana down.
By that point, it was Jeremie's life, not Aelita's, that was at stake.
Telling anyone would have indirectly made us murderers.
And maybe it was because they trusted us.
They told us their secret. They let us join them. They let us go.
They'd disappeared for years. And when we'd found them, they'd welcomed us. They could have reset time and hidden.
They used to stick up for us. They used to help us. They had tried to make us feel welcome even before they disappeared. They'd gotten us out of trouble with Jim before.
So here's a simple answer. Why did we keep their secret.
We owed them that much. We owe them more now.
Milly Solovieff, age 15
