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"She’s gone," I say "She saved me"

Caleb closes his eyes and takes a deep breath

My father looks listening eyes and nodding

"That is good," he says, sounding strained "A good death"

If I speak right noill break down, and I can’t afford to do that So I just nod

Eric called Al’s suicide brave, and he rong My mother’s death was brave I remember how calm she was, how determined It isn’t just brave that she died forit, without hesitation, and without appearing to consider another option

He helps me to my feet Time to face the rest of the room My mother told me to save them Because of that, and because I am Dauntless, it’s my duty to lead now I have no idea how to bear that burden

Marcus gets up A vision of hi my arm with a belt rushes into my mind when I see him, and my chest squeezes

"We are only safe here for so long," Marcus says eventually "We need to get out of the city Our best option is to go to the Amity compound in the hope that they’ll take us in Do you know anything about the Dauntless strategy, Beatrice? Will they stop fighting at night?"

"It’s not Dauntless strategy," I say "This whole thing isorders"

"Not giving orders," my father says "What do you mean?"

"I mean," I say, "ninety percent of the Dauntless are sleepwalking right now They’re in a si The only reason I’m not just like them is that I’m…" I hesitate on the word "The mind control doesn’t affect me"

"Mind control? So they don’t know that they’re killing people right now?" my father asks me, his eyes wide

"No"

"That’s…awful" Marcus shakes his head His sy up and realizing what you’ve done…"

The rooine themselves in the place of the Dauntless soldiers, and that’s when it occurs to me

"We have to wake them up," I say

"What?" Marcus says

"If ake the Dauntless up, they will probably revolt when they realize what’s going on," I explain "The Erudite won’t have an ar This will be over"

"It won’t be that si them, the Erudite will find another way to--"

"And how are we supposed to wake them up?" Marcus says

"We find the computers that control the sira"

"Easier said than done," Caleb says "It could be anywhere We can’t just appear at the Erudite co around"

"It’s…" I frown Jeanine Jeanine was talking about so important when Tobias and I ca up on someone You can’t just leave it undefended And then, when she was sending Tobias away: Send him to the control room The control room where Tobias used to work With the Dauntless security monitors And the Dauntless computers

"It’s at Dauntless headquarters," I say "It makes sense That’s where all the data about the Dauntless is stored, so why not control theister that I said them As of yesterday, I technically becaation, either

I guess I aation, not factionless Divergent

"Are you sure?" uess," I say, "and it’s the best theory I have"

"Then we’ll have to decide who goes and who continues on to Amity," he says "What kind of help do you need, Beatrice?"

The question stuns me, as does the expression he wears He looks at me like I’m a peer He speaks to me like I’m a peer Either he has accepted that I aer his daughter The latter is more likely, and un," I say, "and isn’t afraid of heights"

CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN

ERUDITE AND DAUNTLESS forces are concentrated in the Abnegation sector of the city, so as long as we run away froation sector, we are less likely to encounter difficulty

I didn’t get to decide who is co with me Caleb was the obvious choice, since he knows the o, despite ood with computers And

I watch the others run in the opposite direction--toward safety, toward Amity--for a few seconds, and then I turn away, toward the city, toward the war We stand next to the railroad tracks, which will carry us into danger

"What time is it?" I ask Caleb

He checks his watch "Three twelve"

"Should be here any second," I say

"Will it stop?" he asks

I shake h the city We’ll run next to the car for a few feet and then cli on trains seems easy to me now, natural It won’t be as easy for the rest of them, but we can’t stop now I look over ainst the gray buildings and roads I bounce on the balls of er, and then the front of the train glides pastWhen I see an open car, I pick up rab the handle on the left, swinginghard and rolling on his side to get in, and he helps Marcus My father lands on his stos in behind hie with one hand on a handle, watching the city pass

If I were Jeanine, I would send the majority of Dauntless soldiers to the Dauntless entrance above the Pit, outside the glass building It would be so in the back entrance, the one that requires juret choosing Dauntless," Marcus says

I am surprised my father didn’t ask that question, but he, likethe city The train passes the Erudite compound, which is dark now It looks peaceful from a distance, and inside those walls, it probably is peaceful Far removed from the conflict and the reality of what they have done

I shake my head

"Not even after your faction’s leaders decided to join in a plot to overthrow the governs I needed to learn"

"How to be brave?" my father says quietly