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"Puking is a part of life"

I am about to ask her exactly how often she intends to throw up in the future when the truck surges forward I grab the side with both hands so that I don’t fall out, but after a few o The other trucks trundle along in front of us, behind Johanna’s, which leads the way

I feel caluards who tried to stop us on the way in, but the gate is abandoned, left open A tremor starts innew people and ht into a battle that could claiht after I realized that

The convoy slon as we pass through the fence, like they expect so is silent apart froines

"Do you think it’s already started?" I say to Fernando

"Perhaps Perhaps not," he says "Jeanine haswas going to happen, so she called all the Dauntless forces back to Erudite headquarters"

I nod, but I a of Caleb He was one of those inforly that the outside world should be hidden from us that he would betray everyone he supposedly cared about for Jeanine, who cares about no one

"Did you ever meet someone named Caleb?" I say

"Caleb," Fernando says "Yes, there was a Caleb in my initiate class Brilliant, but he waswhat’s the colloquial term for it? A suck-up" He smirks "There was a bit of a division between initiates Those who e Jeanine said and those who didn’t Obviously I was a roup Caleb was a member of the former Why do you ask?"

"I met him while I was imprisoned," I say, and my voice sounds far away even to e him too harshly," says Fernando "Jeanine can be extraordinarily persuasive to those who aren’t naturally suspicious I have always been naturally suspicious"

I stare over his left shoulder, at the skyline that gets clearer the closer we get to the city I search for the two prongs at the top of the Hub, and when I find them, I feel better and worse at the sa is so fascloser

"Yeah," I say "So have I"

CHAPTER FORTY-ONE

BY THE TIME we reach the city, all conversation has halted in the truck, replaced by pressed lips and pale faces Marcus steers around potholes the size of a person and parts froet out of factionless territory and into the clean parts of the city

Then I hear gunshots Fro

For a moment I aation on their knees on the paveuns in hand; all I can see isto the ground I bite s me back to the present

My mother told me to be brave But if she had known that her death would make ly?

Breaking away from the convoy of trucks, Marcus turns on Madison Avenue and, e are just two blocks away fro is, he pulls the truck into an alley and turns off the engine

Fernando hops out of the truck bed and offers ent," he says with a wink

"What?" I say I take his ar he was sitting with It is full of blue clothes He sorts through theht blue T-shirt and a pair of blue jeans

"Insurgent," he says "Noun A person who acts in opposition to the established authority, who is not necessarily regarded as a belligerent"

"Do you need to give everything a na her hands over her dull blond hair to tuck the stray pieces back "We’re just doing soroup No need for a new title"

"I happen to enjoy categorization," Fernando replies, arching a dark eyebrow

I look at Fernando The last tiun in my hand, and I left bodies behind me I want this time to be different I need this tient It’s perfect"

"See?" Fernando says to Cara "I’ratulations," she says wryly

I stare at my Erudite clothes while the others strip off their outer layers of clothing

"No ti ht, so I pull off the red shirt I earing and put on the blue one instead I glance at Fernando and Marcus to e out of my pants too I have to roll up the jeans four times, and when I belt the

"Did she just call you ‘Stiff’?" Fernando says

"Yeah," I say "I transferred into Dauntless froation"

"Huh" He frowns "That’s quite a shift That kind of leap in personality between generations is alenetically i to do with a person’s choice of faction," I say, thinking of my mother She left Dauntless not because she was ill-suited for it but because it was safer to be Divergent in Abnegation And then there’s Tobias, itched to Dauntless to escape his father "There are many factors to consider"

To escape the uilt

"Keep talking like that and they’ll never discover you’re not really Erudite," Fernando says

I run a coh my hair to smooth it down and then tuck it behind my ears

"Here," says Cara She lifts a piece of hair from my face and pins it back with a silver hair clip, the way Erudite girls do

Christina takes out the guns we brought with us and looks at me

"Do you want one?" she says "Or would you rather carry the stunner?"

I stare at the gun in her hand If I don’t take the stunner, I leave ladly shoot me If I do, I admit to weakness in front of Fernando, Cara, and Marcus

"You knohat Will would say?" says Christina

"What?" I say, et over it," she says "To stop being so irrational and take the stupid gun"

Will had little patience for the irrational Christina ht; she knew him better than I did