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the second. The train is picking up speed. I sit down. It will be easier to keep my balance if I’m low to the ground. She raises an eyebrow at me. “A fast train means wind,” I say. “Wind means falling out. Get down.” Christina sits next to me, inching back to lean against the wall. “I guess we’re going to Dauntless headquarters,” I say, “but I don’t know where that is.” “Does anyone” She shakes her head, grinning. “It’s like they just popped out of a hole in the ground or something.” Then the wind rushes through the car, and the other faction transfers, hit with bursts of air, fall on top of one another. I watch Christina laugh without hearing her and manage a smile. Over my left shoulder, orange light from the setting sun reflects off the glass buildings, and I can faintly see the rows of gray houses that used to be my home. It’s Caleb’s turn to make dinner tonight. Who will take his place—my mother or my father And when they clear out his room, what will they discover I imagine books jammed between the dresser and the wall, books under his mattress. The Erudite thirst for knowledge filling all the hidden places in his room. Did he always know that he would choose Erudite And if he did, how did I not notice 52
What a good actor he was. The thought makes me sick to my stomach, because even though I left them too, at least I was no good at pretending. At least they all knew that I wasn’t selfless. I close my eyes and picture my mother and father sitting at the dinner table in silence. Is it a lingering hint of selflessness that makes my throat tighten at the thought of them, or is it selfishness, because I know I will never be their daughter again +++ “They’re jumping off!” I lift my head. My neck aches. I have been curled up with my back against the wall for at least a half hour, listening to the roaring wind and watching the city smear past us. I sit forward. The train has slowed down in the past few minutes, and I see that the boy who shouted is right: The Dauntless in the cars ahead of us are jumping out as the train passes a rooftop. The tracks are seven stories up. The idea of leaping out of a moving train onto a rooftop, knowing there is a gap between the edge of the roof and the edge of the track, makes me want to throw up. I push myself up and stumble to the other side of the car, where the other faction transfers stand in a line. 53
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Page 21 and 22: chapter three I wake to sweaty palm
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