Dauntless will certainly test Tris's resolve-- after going through the schedule of initiation, Eric dropped kind of a big bomb on the initiates. Only the TOP TEN initiates make it into Dauntless. The other initiates must leave the compound and live factionless. There are 20 initiates this year: 11 Dauntless-born, 9 transfers.
If you're really one of us, it won't matter to you that you might fail. And if it does, you're a coward.
While the Erudite and Candor transfers bemoan this harsh reality, Tris resolves to make it into the top ten.
But instead of crying, like the Erudite girl, I feel colder. Harder. I will be a member. I will.
Already, as an Abnegation-born transfer, she's facing mocking and sneering and skepticism.
My odds, as the smallest initiate, as the only Abnegation transfer, are not good.
I think she wants to go back to her family, a little, but she knows she's unhappy there too.
My problem might be that even if I did go home, I wouldn't belong there, among people who give without thinking and care without trying.
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