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"We had to shoot so et into the building, we had to"

"I know," I say

I see Christina’s sister and ht side of the rooleaht--Peter His hand is on the shoulder of a nize as hishere?" I say

"Little coward came in the aftermath, after all the as done," Uriah says "I heard his dad’s dead Looks like his h"

Peter looks over his shoulder, and his gaze meets mine, just for a second In that second I try to summon some pity for the person who saved one, I still feel nothing

"What’s the holdup?" de rooiant portrait of Jeanine is in pieces on the floor The smoke that hovers in the air is condensed around the bookshelves, which are burned to cinders All the co in rows in the center of the rooet away, and the Dauntless traitors who survived I search the faces for anything fa dazed I look away

"Tris!" I hear Christina sits near the front, next to Cara, her leg wrapped tightly with fabric She beckons to me, and I sit down next to her

"No success?" she says quietly

I shake esture is so co I almost start to cry But Christina and I are not people who cry together; we’re people who fight together So I hold my tears in

"I saw your mom and your sister in the next room," I say

"Yeah, me too," she says "My fa?"

"Fine Cara said it’ll be fine; it’s not bleeding too much One of the Erudite nurses stuffed soauze into her pockets before they took her down here, so it doesn’t hurt too bad either," she says Beside her, Cara is exa another Erudite’s arm "Where’s Marcus?"

"Dunno," I say "We had to split up He should be down here Unless they killed hi"

"I wouldn’t be that surprised, honestly," she says

The rooain, our factionless guards trading places, new people in Erudite blue brought to sit aets quieter, and then I see hih the stairwell door

I bite my lip, hard, and try not to think, try not to dwell on the cold feeling that surrounds s over my head He hates hter as he walks past us, without even looking at rabs his arles for a second, but he is not half as strong as Tobias and can’t break away

"What?" Caleb says, panicking "What do you want?"

"I want you to disarm the security syste back "So that the factionless can access her computer"

And destroy it, I think, and if possible, my heart becomes even heavier Tobias and Caleb disappear into the stairwell again

Christina sluainst her, so we hold each other up

"Jeanine activated all the Dauntless transroups got a late frouess the factionless won, though I don’t kno you call shooting a bunch of brain-dead people winning"

"Yeah" There isn’t much more to say She seeot shot?" she says

I describe the blue hallith two doors, and the sinized the Dauntless training room to theWill

"Wait," she says "It was a simulation? Without a transmitter?"

I frown I hadn’t bothered to wonder about that Especially not at the tinizes people, maybe it also knows data about everyone, and can present a corresponding si on your faction"

It doesn’t ure out how Jeanine set up the security on her laboratory, of all things But it feels good to put myself to some use, to think of a new problem to solve now that I have failed to solve the hter Maybe she feels the same way

"Or the poison soht of that

"But how did Tori get past it? She’s not Divergent"

I tilt my head "I don’t know"

Maybe she is, I think Her brother was, and after what happened to hiht never admit it, no matter how accepted it becomes

People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets You believe you know them, that you understand them, but their motives are always hidden from you, buried in their own hearts You will never know them, but sometioing to do to us when they find us guilty?" she says after a few minutes of silence have passed

"Honestly?"

"Does now seem like the time for honesty?"

I look at her fro to force us to eat lots of cake and then take an unreasonably long nap"

She laughs I try not to--if I let h, I’ll start to cry, too

I hear a yell, and peer around the crowd to see where it came from

"Lynn!" The yell came from Uriah He runs toward the door, where two Dauntless are carrying Lynn in on a makeshift stretcher, made of what looks like a shelf from a bookcase She is pale--too pale--and her hands are folded over her stomach

I juuns stop

Uriah walks around the crowd of war criray hair "You Coets to her feet and brushes off her pants She walks, light-footed, to the edge of the seated crowd and looks expectantly at Uriah

"You’re a doctor, right?" he says

"I am, yes," she says

"Then fix her!" He scowls "She’s hurt"

The doctor approaches Lynn and asks the two Dauntless to set her down They do, and she crouches over the stretcher

"My dear," she says "Please remove your hands from your wound"