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If this were Abnegation, no Divergent would be sitting here right now

For a et there But then Zeke waves uide my feet in that direction But before I make it there, Lynn approaches me

She is a different Lynn from the one I have always known She doesn’t have a fierce look in her eyes Instead she is pale and biting her lip to hide its wobble

"Uht, anywhere but at my face "I reallyItime, and I" She shakes her head "The point is, don’t think thatabout Marlene," she says, like she’s scoldingHec"

Lynn shifts her weight fro around the roo habout it

She lets go, sniffs, and walks back to her table like nothing happened I stare at her retreating back for a few seconds, and then sit down

Zeke and Uriah sit side by side at the otherwise empty table Uriah’s face is slack, like he’s not completely awake He has a dark brown bottle in front of him that he sips from every few seconds

I feel cautious around him I saved Hec--which means I failed to save Marlene But Uriah doesn’t look at e of it

"Where’s Shauna?" I say "Still in the hospital?"

"No, she’s over there," says Zeke, nodding to the table Lynn walked back to I see her there, so pale shein a wheelchair "Shauna shouldn’t be up, but Lynn’s prettyher co why they’re all the way over thereShauna found out I’ishly "And she doesn’t want to catch it"

"Oh"

"She got all weird with"‘How do you know your brother isn’t working against us? Have you been watching hiive to punch whoever poisoned her ," says Uriah "Her ht there Go ahead and hit her"

I follow his gaze to a s all the way down her earlobe She is pretty, just like Lynn

Tobias enters the room a moment later, followed by Tori and Harrison I have been avoiding hiht we had, before Marlene

"Hello, Tris," Tobias says when I’h It transports ht little voice that does not belong to me

He sits next toclose I don’t stare back--I refuse to stare back

I stare back

Dark eyes--a peculiar shade of blue, so the rest of the cafeteria out, of co me that we are farther away frooing to ask ht?" I say

"No, I’ht" He shakes his head "I’ to ask you not to make any decisions until we’ve talked about it"

It’s too late, I think The decision’s made

"Until we’ve all talked about it, you mean, since it involves all of us," says Uriah "I don’t think anyone should turn themselves in"

"No one?" I say

"No!" Uriah scowls "I think we should attack back"

"Yeah," I say hollowly, "let’s provoke the woman who can force half of this coreat idea"

I was too harsh Uriah tips the contents of his bottle down his throat He brings the bottle down on the table so hard I’m afraid it will shatter

"Don’t talk about it like that," he says in a growl

"I’ht The best way to ensure that half our faction doesn’t die is to sacrifice one life"

I don’t knohat I expected Maybe that Uriah, who knows too ill happen if one of us does not go, would volunteer hi

"Tori and Harrison and I decided to increase security Hopefully if everyone is more aware of these attacks, ill be able to stop them," Tobias says "If it doesn’t work, then ill think of another solution End of discussion But no one is going to do anything yet Okay?"

He looks at me when he asks and raises his eyebrows

"Okay," I say, not quite o back to the dorh the door Instead I walk through the corridors, brushing the stone walls withto the echoes ofto, I pass the water fountain where Peter, Drew, and Al attacked me I kneas Al by the way he srass to mind Now I associate it not with edmy eyes wide open so it will be harder to picture the attack in et away from here, far from the places where htless aration sector and all this insanity began

I go straight toward the last place where I felt safe: Tobias’s small apartment The second I reach the door, I feel cale it open with my foot He isn’t there, but I don’t leave I sit on his bed and gather the quilt indeep breaths of it through one, it’s been so long since he slept on it

The door opens and Tobias slips in My aro limp, and the quilt falls into my lap Hoill I explain ry with him

He doesn’t scowl, but his ry with me

"Don’t be an idiot," he says

"An idiot?"

"You were lying You said you wouldn’t go to Erudite, and you were lying, and going to Erudite would make you an idiot So don’t"

I set the blanket down and get up