Besides for Tobias Eaton and Beatrice Prior, no Abnegation member had transferred into Dauntless in 35 years. The sudden duo's transfer had made everyone in the Abnegation nervous. Would this give more Abnegation teenagers the courage to transfer?

The answer was a complicated yes and no. Yes because more Abnegation would over time transfer, but no to the change occurring all at once.

My name is Edith Prior II, cousin to Beatrice Prior. Today is the day that I take the test.

I'm not an only child, like other Abnegation families my parents had two children. I have an older sister, Margaret, who chose 2 years ago. She lives next door with her husband and is 3 months pregnant with their first child.

"Edith, are you awake?" my mother's soft voice calls from the doorway as I tie my shoes.

"Yes, I am almost ready." I smile as much as I can up at my mother and she disappears down the stairs. I could do this. I mean it's just a test, how hard could it be?

The walk to the bus stop was silent between Laura and I, and the bus ride was as bumpy as normal, but I couldn't shake the nerves. Maybe I wasn't suppose to. We had shortened classes that went by fast and without much attention paid to them by anyone except the Erudite. I sat at a table with the other choosing Abnegation, except while they all played with their fingers, I watched the Dauntless interact. They were loud and exciting and reckless, but it was beautiful in a sort of way.

"Edith Prior, Rosie Jacbos, Laura Lipshitz, Mathew Marks..." the announcer called 4 more names but I didn't listen to them. Instead I rose as gracefully as possible and walked into the room I was pointed to. An Asian Dauntless woman sat there, 1 of the 2 non-Abnegation testers.

"Another Prior I see. My name is Tori, I gave your cousin her test as well." She smiles at me and motions towards the chair.

The chair is set up in the middle of the room, surrounded by walls covered in mirrors. I see my reflection and hastily look away, but I can't help myself when I look back at my reflection. I know Tori is watching me but I don't care. My body looks deformed from my baggy clothes. My pants were rolled up numerous times to keep me from tripping and a shapeless grey sweater kept my torso covered. My sleepless nights had placed dark half circles underneath my eyes and my light hair was pulled back into a severe bun.

"I've never seen an Abnegation look at their reflection." Tori remarks. I clear my throat and sit in the chair, half listening as Tori explains to me the process of the test. I toss back the oddly blue drink and close my eyes. Suddenly, I'm no longer in the mirror room and Tori has disappeared. Two black plates sit in front of me, one with a hunk of cheese on it and the other with a knife. The weapon scared me because it told me something dangerous could be coming but then I was confused by the cheese. Was there any way in which cheese could save you from violence?

"Choose." A voice says.

"Why? For what?" I'm panicked. How am I supposed to choose if I don't know what it's for?

"Choose." The voice insisted again.

"I don't understand though, why?" suddenly the knife and the cheese disappear and I am faced with a dog. A growling, vicious dog.

"This is not good." I mutter. The room is empty between the dog and myself, the mirrors back on the walls. The dog lunges and I move, just barely getting clipped by it's claw. Suddenly an idea forms, and I wrap my sweater over my hand, punching the mirror so that it shattered. I picked up a piece of the mirror and held it out as the dog lunged once more. The scene shifts and I am sitting on a bus. An older man next to me thrusts the newspaper in my face.

"Do you know this man?" he points to a picture on the front and I feel, inside, that I do know this man. I also however knew that if I said I knew the man something bad would happen. To who, I wasn't sure.

"No, I don't."

"Are you sure? I really need to know." The paper was back in my face.

"Yes, I'm sure. I don't know who this man is." Again, the scene shifted and I was standing next to a young girl. A man with a gun came up to us.

"I have orders to kill the girl." He claimed. The fear and innocence in her face made me shoot up and stand in between her and the man.

"No. You will not reach her." My voice is firm and when the man steps closer and raises his gun, I step forward and quickly punch him in the face. The gun clatters to the ground as he reaches up with out hand to cup his bleeding face and then tries to grab me with his free hand. I bend down swiftly and grab the gun, unsure where the sudden fighting skills were coming from.

"What, you gonna shoot me?" the man smirked at me as I fumbled with the weapon, pointing it at his forehead. My mind told me to let him go, let him be free, and then the young girl started to whimper, terrified and frightened, behind me. My finger pulls the trigger, and then I am pulled out of the simulation.

I'm breathing hard when Tori unhooks the electrodes from my head. She leans over and whispers fast to me.

"Your test was inconclusive. By smashing the mirror and killing the dog you ruled out Amity, but gave reason to suspect Dauntless or Erudite. By lying to the man on the bus we ruled out Candor, but by protecting the girl you showed Abnegation traits and Dauntless traits because of the fighting, and Erudite traits because you learned the defense skills from a book. You showed almost equal aptitude for Abnegation, Erudite, and Dauntless. Just like your cousin. I will put this down as Abnegation, but you must know: do not tell anyone, under any circumstances, your test results." Tori pulls back and smiles, ushering me to get up and leave. Shakily, I do and I start to walk home out the back door.

I open the door quietly and move to my room. I already knew what I was going to choose, that wasn't what was getting at me. I just didn't understand, inconclusive. Was this a bad thing? Why did I have to hide it?

"Edith, it's time to go." My mother's soft voice came from the kitchen as I silently followed my father's footsteps.

"Margaret is coming with Robert." He informs me. I nodded, this was good, I'd have a chance to see her. We rode the bus silently, as always, and took the trillion stairs to the floor of the choosing ceremony. We sat still, my father first, then my mother, then me, with my sister and her husband after that, as we listened to the Candor leader's speech about maintaining peace with the factions, and the story of the war. The names are called, starting at the end and working it's way up. Most of the Abnegation choose Abnegation, although one transfers to Amity and two transfer to Candor.

"Edith Prior II." My name is called in a clear voice as I walk up to the 5 bowls. I take the knife handed to me and make a shallow slit in my palm, just enough for blood, and stare at the Abnegation bowl for a moment before shifting my hand over the Dauntless coals, listening as they sizzle from the liquid that is my blood.

"DAUNTLESS!" Loud cheers erupt and I can't resist looking at my family, disappointment on all of their faces except my mother's, my soft, quiet, selfless mother.

Excitedly, I join my new family and wonder what would be waiting for me at the compound.