Two

The fierce wind slaps my face, whipping through my hair. My eyes start to water, and I zip up the jacket I borrowed from Dauntless up to my throat. The Erudite compound starts to get larger and larger. All the Erudite innocents had built a building just beside it, and had buried all of the innocents who had been killed in the attack in a graveyard beside their new home.

Christina knocks on the door of the building, and a small girl answers it, with long chocolate brown hair tied back in a severe bun at the base of her scalp, and large glasses propped on her button nose.

'Hi…uh…we'd like to see your leader, please,' says Christina. The girl looks suspicious, and steps back slowly.

'Why are you here?' she asks. A man has appeared just behind her now. His expression is bland, though his eyes look curious.

'We just need to show my friend something. It means a lot to her, and, well…quite a few other people in Dauntless, too,'

'I'll take you. He currently lives in the back of the house,' the Erudite man pushes the girl gently to the side to let us through, and I smile at her on my way. She smiles faintly in reply.

The walls of this new building are all white, and we are lead passes dozens of rooms with doors marked things like Construction Room and Science laboratory. Christina is looking at them too, and I catch her eye. She grins.

'Typical Erudite,' she whispers. I nod, laughing. The man presses a series of numbers on a keypad next to a door. A man's voice echoes through the small hallway we are standing in.

'Who are you?'

'It's me. I have three people to see you – three teenagers,'

'Who are they?'

The man looks sideways at me, and I speak up.

'Tris, Christina, and Zeke,'

There is a pause on the other end of the line.

'Tris…Prior?'

I frown.

'Yes,'

'Why are you here?'

'I need to show her something. And I need to ask you something, too,' says Christina

'Do you know who I am?'

'Yes,' Christina says. 'Who?' I mouth. She shakes her head. 'Please let us in. Think about the conversation we had yesterday,'

Zeke and I exchange bemused looks. There is a buzz, and the door slides open. The man stands back, and I follow Christina through.

The room we are in now is different from the rest of the building. The walls are painted a creamy yellow, and there is a table scattered in papers, behind which sits a man, his face obscured by a hood.

'I didn't expect you to come here, Tris,'

'Neither did I,'

The man seems amused, the dark shadows under his eyes lifting slightly. I still can't see him under his hood.

'I brought her so you could show her what…what's been going on,'

'And I will.'

He looks up, and strides over to me.

'So, who do you think did it, then?' he asks, quietly.

'Did what?'

'Kill your brother,'

My throat goes tight, and I swallow.

'I…I don't know…'

'But who do you think?'

'I think…I think…' my voice shrinks to a whisper. 'Tobias Eaton.'

The man nods slowly.

'Interesting…very interesting,'

I frown.

'Who are you, anyway?'

'The leader of the Erudite – well, the innocents among them, anyway,'

'And what's your name?'

'I thought you would've recognised my voice.'

'Well, I don't,' I say, flatly.

The man reaches up his large hands and lifts his hood, slowly. I gaze up at the man beneath the hood – the new leader of the Erudite, and my jaw drops. No way has this man come back to haunt me. No way.

The new leader of Erudite is Marcus Eaton.