Tris gets invited by Uriah (Dauntless born initiate) to come with him and some other Dauntless to do a initiation ritual. Usually only the Dauntless born initiates are invited to this, but no one questions when Tris comes. Their destination is the Hancock building where they ride the elevator to the hundredth floor. To get to the roof they climb a ladder. On the roof there is a cable that extends all the way to the ground. Each initiate rides down the cable in a sling. When it is finally Tris’s turn she is nervous yet excited.
My heart beats so hard it hurts, and I can’t scream and I can’t breathe, but I also feel everything, every vein and every fiber, every bone and every nerve, all awake and buzzing in my body as if charged with electricity. I am pure adrenaline.
I think it’s safe to say that Tris loved this experience. I love zip-lines so I think I would enjoy doing “cable sliding.” It has also made the Dauntless respect her and not see her as Abnegation anymore.
“Pretty sure we can’t call you ‘Stiff’ anymore, “Shauna says. She nods. “Tris.”
When Tris gets back to the compound Will, Al, and Christina all ask her where she went. She tells them and Christina gets a little mad. An Erudite had come to the compound asking for opinions on Abnegation leaders and Christina let him know that he was wasting his time.
“While you were off having fun, I was doing the dirty work of defending your old faction, eliminating interfaction conflict...”
Tris is thankful, but as Will tells the story, her mind wanders to how much she is looking forward to becoming Dauntless now, and how she has to make it past the next stage of initiation. 
Hancock Building
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