Chapter 30

Tris enters her fear landscape.  The first fear she overcomes is being attacked by crows, but what she is really afraid of is loss of control.  Tris doesn't fight the birds, and manipulates the simulation into giving her a gun.  The gun gives her a sense of power and that calms her down, so she moves onto her next fear.  The next fear she faces is being drowned in a glass box, but she manipulates that simulation to make the glass thin so she can break it.  Her third fear she faces is drowning in the middle of the ocean, but she grabs onto a rock and pulls herself out.  The next fear is being burned alive at the stake by Peter, she manipulates this simulation into raining so the fire is put out before it can harm her.  Then, Tris is in a glass room and hundreds of zombie type people are trying to get into it and attack her.  She calms her heart rate down enough to move onto the next fear.  This fear is really funny.  Tris is afraid of intimacy.  She is in a room with Tobias and has to calm down enough to move on. 

I look Simulation Tobias in the eye and say sternly, "I am not going to sleep with you in a hallucination.  Okay?"

I press against him and kiss him, my hands wrapping around his arms.  He feels strong.  He feels...good.  And he's gone.

Tris's last fear is having to choose between shooting her family or dying herself.  She chooses to turn around and put her forehead against the barrel of the gun. 

Shoot me instead.

"One!"

I hear a click, and a bang.

This chapter was fun to read and see all of Tris's fears.  The intimacy simulation was the funniest, and all of the Dauntless leaders saw it! Including Eric!  That's awkward.  As for her last fear, simulation or not, it was really brave of Tris to sacrifice herself for her family. 

                  

Tris's fears.