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I shakemy own memory because of what Marcus told me? There is no way to know All I can do is decide if I trust Marcus or not

And while he has done cruel, evil things, our society is not divided into "good" and "bad" Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the saood or bad, but both

Well, he is probably ood

But that doesn’t

On the street ahead of low of fire Alare, man-sized metal bowls set up on the sidewalks The Dauntless and the factionless have gathered between theroup from the other And before them stand Evelyn, Harrison, Tori, and Tobias

I spot Christina, Uriah, Lynn, Zeke, and Shauna on the right side of the cluster of Dauntless, and stand with them

"Where’ve you been?" Christina says "We looked all over for you"

"I went for a walk What’s going on?"

"They’re finally going to tell us the attack plan," says Uriah, looking eager

"Oh," I say

Evelyn lifts her hands, palms out, and the factionless fall silent They are better trained than the Dauntless, whose voices take thirty seconds to peter out

"The past feeeks, we have been developing a plan to fight the Erudite," Evelyn says, her low voice carrying easily "And now that we have finished, ould like to share it with you"

Evelyn nods at Tori, who takes over "Our strategy is not pointed, but broad There is no way to knoho a the Erudite supports Jeanine and who does not It is therefore safer to assume that all those who do not support her have already vacated Erudite headquarters"

"We all know that Erudite’s power lies not in its people but in its infor as they still possess that infore numbers of us are wired for simulations They have used information to control us and keep us under their thu the factionless and spreading to the Dauntless, rises up fro the cole brain But I am not sure what I think, or how I feel There is a part offor the destruction of every single Erudite and all that they hold dear

I look at Tobias His expression is neutral, and he stands behind the glow of firelight, where he is difficult to see I wonder what he thinks of this

"I am sorry to tell you that those of you ere shot with simulation transmitters will have to remain here," says Tori, "or you can be activated as a weapon of Erudite at any time"

There are a few cries of protest, but no one seems all that surprised They know too hat Jeanine can do with siroans and looks at Uriah "We have to stay?"

"You have to stay," he says

"You got shot too," she says "I saw it"

"Divergent, remember?" he says Lynn rolls her eyes, and he hurries on, probably to avoid hearing Lynn’s Divergent conspiracy theory again "Anyway, I bet you no one checks, and what are the odds she’ll activate you, specifically, if she knows everyone else with si behind?"

Lynn frowns, considering this But she looks ins speaking again

"The rest of us will divide into groups of e group will attempt to penetrate Erudite headquarters and work its way up through the building, cleansing it of Erudite’s influence Several other, sher levels of the building to dispense with certain key Erudite officials You will receive your group assign"

"The attack will occur in three days’ tierous and difficult But the factionless are familiar with difficulty--"

At this the factionless cheer, and I am reminded that we, the Dauntless, are the saation for giving the factionless food and other necessary iteet?

"And the Dauntless are faer--"

Everyone around me punches the air with their fists and screams I feel their voices inside my head, and the burn of triumph in my chest that makes me want to join theiving an impassioned speech Her face looks like a mask

"Doith Erudite!" Tori yells, and everyone repeats her, all voices joining together, regardless of faction We share a common enemy, but does that make us friends?

I notice that Tobias does not join in the chant, and neither does Christina

"This doesn’t feel right," she says

"What do you mean?" Lynn says as the voices rise around us "Don’t you remember what they did to us? Put our minds under a si it? Murdered every single Abnegation leader?"

"Yeah," says Christina "It’s justInvading a faction’s headquarters and killing everyone, isn’t that what the Erudite just did to Abnegation?"

"This is different This is not an attack out of nowhere, unprovoked," says Lynn, scowling at her

"Yeah," Christina says "Yeah, I know"

She looks at ht

I walk toward the Eaton house in search of silence

I open the front door and climb the stairs When I reach Tobias’s old room, I sit on the bed and look out the here factionless and Dauntless are gathered around the fires, laughing and talking But they aren’t ether; there is still an uneasy divide between them, factionless on one side and Dauntless on the other

I watch Lynn, Uriah, and Christina by one of the fires Uriah snatches at the flaririef

After a few minutes I hear footsteps on the stairs, and Tobias co off his shoes by the doorway

"What’s wrong?" he says

"Nothing, really," I say "I was just thinking, I’reed to ith Dauntless so easily It’s not like the Dauntless were ever kind to them"

He stands beside me at theand leans into the frame

"It’s not a natural alliance, is it," he says "But we have the saoals change? The factionless want to get rid of factions, and the Dauntless don’t"

Tobias presses his mouth into a line I suddenly reh the orchard--Marcus wore the sa froet that expression fro different?