Chapter 29

Today's the day of the final test!!! It will decide who becomes members and who leave as factionless.  In Dauntless, it's crazy!  People are everywhere drinking, one person even falls off of the Pit wall.

Before Tris goes into the fear landscape, she gets some food and heads back to the dormitory.  When she looks at what she got, she realizes that she picked out Abnegation food. 

I sigh.  Abnegation is what I am.  It is what I am when I'm not thinking about what I'm doing.  It is what I am when I am put to the test.  It is what I am even when I appear to be brave.  Am I in the wrong faction?

Tris is the last initiate to go through the fear landscape, because she is ranked first.    No one sees the actual fears but they see the initiates reaction to them.  While Tris is waiting for her turn she reminds herself that she can manipulate the simulations, and she's had practice doing it. 

When her name is called Eric gives the the simulation serum.

I imagine that the serum is liquid adrenaline rushing through my veins, making me strong.

"Ready?" he asks.



Simulation serum!