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A few silent o He barely looks at me, scowls at the back wall instead I suppose it would have been tooI stand, and together alk down the hallway

My toes are cold My feet stick to the tiles We turn a corner, and I hear , but as we draw closer, it takes shape

"I want toher!" Tobias "Isee her!"

I glance at Peter "I can’t speak to him one last tih Maybe if he sees you he’ll finally shut up"

He takesAt the end is a door, and Peter is right, there’s a smallnear the top, about a foot above my head

"Tris!" Tobias’s voice is even clearer here "I want to see her!"

I reach up and press lass The shouts stop, and his face appears behind the glass His eyes are red; his face, blotchy Handsome He stares down at lass so it lines up with h the

He leans his forehead against the door and squeezes his eyes shut

I take my hand down and turn away before he can open his eyes I feel pain in ot shot in the shoulder I clutch the front of my shirt, blink away tears, and rejoin Peter in the main hallway

"Thank you," I say quietly I ain "Let’s just go"

I hear ru somewhere ahead of us--the sound of a crowd The next hallway is packed with Dauntless traitors, tall and short, young and old, armed and unarmed They all wear the blue armband of betrayal

"Hey!" Peter shouts "Clear a path!"

The Dauntless traitors closest to us hear hiainst the walls to make way for us The other Dauntless traitors follow suit soon after, and everyone is quiet Peter steps back to let o ahead of hi starts, but soainst the wall, and someone else joins in, and I walk down the aisle between solemn-but-raucous Dauntless traitors, their hands inis so fast my heart races to keep up with it

Some of the Dauntless traitors incline their heads to me--I’m not sure why It doesn’t matter

I reach the end of the hallway and open the door to my execution chamber

I open it

Dauntless traitors crowded the hallway; the Erudite crowd the execution room, but there, they have made a path for me already Silently they study me as I walk to the metal table in the center of the room Jeanine stands a few steps away The scratches on her face show through hastily applied le fro, one at each corner of the table I sit down first, wipe my hands off on id, seeping into my skin, into my bones Appropriate, perhaps, because that is ill happen to my body when all the life leaves it; it will become cold and heavy, heavier than I have ever been As for the rest of o nowhere, and ht, but er useful to me anyway

Peter slips an electrode beneath the collar of ht over my heart He then attaches a wire to the electrode and switches on the heartSoon, where that steady rhyth froht:

I don’t want to die

All those ti my life, I never took him seriously I believed that I wanted to be with my parents and for all of this to be over I was sure I wanted to e and boiling inside me is the desire to live

I don’t want to die I don’t want to die I don’t want to!

Jeanine steps forith a syringe full of purple seruht above us, so I can barely see her eyes

Every part of ht that in order to give e for ; I need to live ht of their deaths I need to live

Jeanine holds my head steady with one hand and inserts the needle into my neck with the other

I’m not done! I shout in my head, and not at Jeanine I aer down Peter leans forward and looks into o into effect in one minute," he says "Be brave, Tris"

The words startle me, because that is exactly what Tobias said when he put ins to race

Why would Peter tell me to be brave? Why would he offer any kind words at all?

All thefills my limbs If this is death, it isn’t so bad My eyes stay open, but my head drops to the side I try to close my eyes, but I can’t--I can’t

CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX

BUT I’M STILL breathing Not deeply; not enough to satisfy, but breathing Peter pushes my eyelids over my eyes Does he know I’?

"Take the body to the lab," Jeanine says "The autopsy is scheduled for this afternoon"

"All right," Peter replies

Peter pushes the table forward I hear roup of Erudite bystanders My hand falls off the edge of the table as we turn a corner, and sertips, but I can’t o down the hallway of Dauntless traitors, it is silent Peter walks slowly at first, then turns another corner and picks up the pace He almost sprints down the next corridor, and stops abruptly Where am I? I can’t be in the lab already Why did he stop?

Peter’s arms slide under ainst his shoulder

"For someone so small, you’re heavy, Stiff," he mutters

He knows I’m awake He knows

I hear a series of beeps, and a slide--a locked door, opening

"What do--" Tobias’s voice Tobias! "Oh , okay?" Peter says "She’s not dead; she’s just paralyzed It’ll only last for about a et ready to run"

I don’t understand

How does Peter know?

"Let me carry her," Tobias says

"No You’re a better shot than I aun slide out of its holster Tobias brushes a hand over