Chapter 12

One of my favorite chapters!  The initiates are woken up in the middle of the night and told to be at the train in five minutes.  They're going to play Capture the Flag.  That would be sooo much fun!  Capture the Flag is one of the best games ever created.  Anyway, the team captains are Four and Eric.  The teams are made up of Dauntless members, Dauntless born initiates, and transfer intiates.  Eric picks all of the big, strong, and intimidating people for his team.  Four, however, picks all of the small and fast people for his team.  He is so much smarter than Eric.  Strength gets you nowhere in the game, speed does. 

Obviously, Tris is on Four's team.  Their team chooses to hide the flag at Navy Pier.  While, the team is arguing over what strategy they should use, Tris knows that a strategy won't help if they don't know where the other team's flag is.  So, she starts to climb the ferris wheel to see where the other team is.  SHE IS CRAZY! I am deathly afraid of heights so I would never ever do something like that. Four comes with her and we discover something about him.  He's afraid of heights too!  Tris also discovered something. 

It's him.  Something about him makes me feel like I am about to fall.  Or turn to liquid.  Or burst into flames.

Finally, they climb high enough to where they can see the other teams flag.  As Tris is climbing down the rungs on the ladder breaks and she is dangling in midair.  I would have peed my pants and had a heart attack.  Tris keeps calm and holds on long enough for Four to climb down and start the ferris wheel so Tris gets close to the ground.  THEY START LAUGHING! What the heck!  They have the strangest relationship ever.  

Anyway, when Tris and Four get back to the team they split into two groups.  One distracts Eric's team and the other gets the flag.  Christina takes the flag instead of letting Tris do it.  SELFISH.  Tris is the one who risked her life and Christina did nothing!

Christina holds the flag up high, and everyone clusters around her, grabbing her arm to lift the flag even higher.  I can't reach her, so I stand off to the side, grinning.

"Well done," Four says quietly.


Just to give you an idea of where the flag was hidden and what Tris climbed in this chapter.