Shadow - Light? Where'd Tris go?
Light - She doesn't belong to us, Shadow. And neither does Divergent.
Shadow - I was gonna ask her to do the disclaimer, but apparently you beat her to it.
I sit at the lunch table, my legs shaking. What will they say? What will be my faction? That is all that runs through my head as I sit among my Amity buddies. My yellow skirt shakes slightly as my knees knock together. And then I hear it, my name. "Margaret Smith" I hear a few other names I don't recognize. I stand, trying to hide the shaking, but it's useless. An Abnegation volunteer directs me to a testing room. I enter and all I see is my own reflection, multiplied, until it becomes endless. A moment later, a different door opens and another volunteer enters the room. By her gray clothing, she is clearly Abnegation. "Will you please sit in the chair?" She asks me quietly. I take a seat, grateful, because I felt like I was about to collapse. The volunteer attaches electrodes to my forehead, and hooks up the wires to the machines. She hands me a small vial of clear liquid. I take a sniff, and it smells like nothing. It looks like water, but I'm sure this is the serum, to have us enter the simulation. "Drink the serum please." she says. I take a deep breath, steel my nerves and throw the liquid down my throat.
A room appears before my eyes. It's the lunch room I just left, except empty this time. On the table directly in front of me, there are two baskets. One has a wedge of cheese and the other has a long knife. I take the knife, thinking that some protection is better than none. I hear a growl behind me, and the hair on my neck stands on end. I turn and find a dog staring at me and growling ferociously. I don't want to kill it. I know some about dogs, so I avoid his gaze and grab the cheese from the table. I approach him with the cheese, and the growling stops. I feel his tongue on my fingers and look over to see him continue to eat the cheese. No wonder they gave us cheese, dogs can't resist it. Then the simulation changes, A girl appears behind me, crying. The dog begins to approach, growling again. This time, I know I have no choice, and I throw the knife. I hear the sickening sound of it impaling the dog and turn away, not wanting to watch. Suddenly I am on a bus, and a Candor man is asking me if I know a criminal featured in the paper. I do know him, but I don't know how. I feel like he'll be hurt if I say I know him. If he's a criminal, he deserves to be hurt. The Candor man prompts me, "Well? Do you know him or not?" I take a breath before answering, "Yes, I know him." The bus dissolves and I'm back in the mirrored room. My heart pounding and breathing heavily.
The Abnegation woman, smiles but she appears confused, and like she is trying to hide something. "I'll be right back. Stay right here for me okay?" I wait in the chair, staring at the returns a moment later, and says " I know you're anxious to hear your result but there has been a perplexing situation. Now, you can't tell anyone, not your families, friends, anyone you hear me?" I nod "You are Divergent."