"Laylah Reeson."
I step into the aptitude test room, where my future will be decided. The silver, frightening chair stands in the center of the room surrounded by mirrors. "Take a seat, please." The man is of Abnegation, evident from his grey clothes and short hair-cut. "I'll explain the process to you-"
"No. Thank you. I know how this works." My brother told me everything two years ago, when he changed from Dauntless to Abnegation. I haven't seen him in two years. As I take a seat, he carries on. "Then allow me to inform you that each test is different per year. But I guess you know how the results work. Here's a syringe which-"He becomes distracted by the tattoo of a flame just below my ear, the Dauntless symbol. After the awkward pause, he proceeds. "Which will knock you out. I will place electrodes to your chest and you will do whatever you chose to do in the simulation. This is confidential, so it's your choice and your choice only." He moves the needle to the side of my neck, injecting the fluid until I begin to feel dizzy.
I'm in a meadow. A meadow which is green and beautiful, just like the ones I've seen in pictures of the Amity headquarters. A small girl begins to scream from a tree standing alone in the meadow. I run to her, hearing the screams getting louder and louder. When I reach the trunk of the tree, I look up but I can't see the girl. The screams carry on. "I'm coming!" I shout, as I climb the trees, desperate to end the screaming. I see the girl deep within the branches, tangled up and stuck. I crawl over to her and let her out. The girl smiles and then vanishes, then the tree is being cut down by a maniac with a chainsaw. His laugh is making me cringe. "Hey!" I shout. "Stop!" The man continues to saw down the tree, but raises his voice. "The money!" He says. "Hand me the money!" The money is in my left hand. "I have it! Stop and I'll hand it to you!" The man stops and I throw the money. "Where was this from?" He asks as he checks the sack of cash. "My left hand." I shout back.
"Anything else?" A gun appears at my side, and it's loaded. "Don't ignore me." He begins to use the chainsaw again. "No!" I scream "Wait, there's a gun." The man stares at me with the gun and reaches for it. What am I doing? I send a bullet through the man's skull; he was a threat to me. I climb down, careful about my footing and reach the ground, staring for anything else to occur. Nothing happens. "Anything?" I shout out, hearing my echo across the meadow. Then I black out and wake up in the chair. "My results?" I ask the Abnegation guy. "Candor." Candor? That would be my last option, as well as Abnegation.
"You climbed the tree, Dauntless, risking yourself, Abnegation, you freed the girl, Abnegation/Amity, You stopped the man, Amity, handed him the money you had, Candor, told him where you had it, Candor, told him you had a gun, Candor, shot him, Dauntless. That's 2 Dauntless, 2 Abnegation, 2 Amity and 3 Candor. You choose at the choosing ceremony tomorrow." I thank him as I leave the room.
Candor?
