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CHAPTER ONE

I WAKE WITH his name in my mouth

Will

Before I open ain Dead

My doing

Tobias crouches in front of me, his hand on my left shoulder The train car bumps over the rails, and Marcus, Peter, and Caleb stand by the doorway I take a deep breath and hold it in an atte inthat happened felt real to me Now it does

I breathe out, and the pressure is still there

"Tris, co mine "We have to jump"

It is too dark to see where we are, but if we are getting off, we are probably close to the fence Tobias helps uides me toward the doorway

The others jump off one by one: Peter first, then Marcus, then Caleb I take Tobias’s hand The wind picks up as we stand at the edge of the car opening, like a hand pushing me back, toward safety

But we launch ourselves into darkness and land hard on the ground The impact hurts the bullet wound inout, and search forin the grass a few feet away, rubbing his knee

He nods I hear hi off tears, and I have to turn away

We landed in the grass near the fence, several yards away from the worn path that the Aate that lets the us in The fence towers over us, too high and flexible to climb over, too sturdy to knock down

"There are supposed to be Dauntless guards here," says Marcus "Where are they?"

"They were probably under the simulation," Tobias says, "and are now" He pauses "Who knohere, doing who knohat"

We stopped the siht of the hard drive in my back pocket reminds me--but we didn’t pause to see the aftermath What happened to our friends, our peers, our leaders, our factions? There is no way to know

Tobias approaches a sate and opens it, revealing a keypad

"Let’s hope the Erudite didn’t think to change this combination," he says as he types in a series of nuate clicks open

"How did you know that?" says Caleb His voice sounds thick with emotion, so thick I am surprised it does not choke him on the way out

"I worked in the Dauntless control rooe the codes twice a year," Tobias says

"How lucky," says Caleb He gives Tobias a wary look

"Luck has nothing to do with it," Tobias says "I only worked there because I wanted to et out"

I shiver The way he talks about getting out--it’s like he thinks we’re trapped I never thought about it that way before, and now that seems foolish

We walk in a s his bloody arm to his chest--the arm that I shot--and Marcus with his hand on Peter’s shoulder, keeping him stable Caleb wipes his cheeks every few seconds, and I know he’s crying but I don’t kno to co myself

Instead I take the lead, Tobias silent at h he does not touch ht are the first sign that we are nearing Alos A cluster of wooden and glass buildings

Before we can reach theround, and abovea kind of tunnel Dark fruit hangs a the leaves, ready to drop The sharp, sweet s apples mixes with the scent of wet earth in et close, Marcus leaves Peter’s side and walks in front "I knohere to go," he says

He leads us past the first building to the second one on the left All the buildings except the greenhouses are hter through an openThe contrast between the laughter and the stone stillness within

Marcus opens one of the doors I would be shocked by the lack of security if ere not at Amity headquarters They often straddle the line between trust and stupidity

In this building the only sound is of our squeaking shoes I don’t hear Caleb crying anymore, but then, he was quiet about it before

Marcus stops before an open roo out theI recognize her because it is hard to forget Johanna’s face, whether you’ve seen her once or a thousand tiht eyebrow to her lip, rendering her blind in one eye and giving her a lisp when she talks I have only heard her speak once, but I remember She would have been a beautiful woman if not for that scar

"Oh, thank God," she says when she sees Marcus She walks toward hi him, she just touches his shoulders, like she reation’s distaste for casual physical contact

"The other o, but they weren’t sure if you had ation ith my father and Marcus in the safe house I didn’t even think to worry about them

She looks over Marcus’s shoulder, first at Tobias and Caleb, then at me, then at Peter

"OhPeter’s shirt "I’ll send for a doctor I can grant you all perht, but toether And"--she eyes Tobias and me--"they will likely not be enthusiastic about a Dauntless presence in our coht have"

I wonder, suddenly, how she knows that I aray shirt My father’s shirt

At that moment, his smell, which is an even mixture of soap and sweat, wafts upward, and it fills my nose, fills my entire head with hiernails cut into my skin Not here Not here

Tobias hands over his gun, but when I reach behind uiding it away froers with mine to cover up what he just did