The Olympian Sisters #2 The Great War

Chapter 30

HAMBURG GERMANY AUGUST 1918 "MAJESTIC"

It was 11:00 sharp when the cry went up. "The war is over! The Armistice has been called! The war is over!"

I turned to Imperator. "At last." I sang. She smiled. "Yes, and I'm glad of it." She said.

"We've lost you know." Columbus muttered. "In war, everyone loses." I reminded her. She grinned.

"Glad to see you remembered my lesson." She said. "I suppose this means we're to do our jobs again." Imperator muttered. "Hopefully." I said.

A week later, Imperator got her answer. "You're to be handed over to Britain as war reparations." Nassau said.

"Imperator and Bismarck will go to White Star and Columbus will go to Cunard." She explained.

"Before you go, I want you to tell me where your loyalties lie right now. In a few years' time it'll be to Britain without question." She ordered.

Imperator went first since she was the oldest. "This is my home, this is where I was born and nothing can change that. Long live the Kaiser and long live Germany, I say." She said.

Next, it was Columbus's turn. "Germany. It is the land I know, and love." Nassau nodded. "Bismarck?" She asked me.

I sighed.

I thought about Britannic. How similar she was to me.

I remembered Olympic and all the suffering she had to see and go through.

After four long years of confusion and indecision, I knew what my answer was.

Remembering what Columbus had said, I spoke from the heart.

"This country may be the land of which I was born. It may be the only land I've ever known. But it is not the land I love and it most certainly is not my home. It never has been and it never will be. Looking back, I know the truth now." I took a deep breath.

"I know where my loyalties lie. My loyalties have and always will lie with Great Britain!"