The four large walls that surrounded them were tall and pitch black. Eric walked up to the front of the group of initiates.

"Welcome to Stage Three." Eric stated, "today you will go through one of your instructor's fear landscape. This will give you a hint at what it will be like when you go through yours in a few days."

Eric stepped back and Lauren stepped forward. She started talking about her fears, but I really wasn't paying that much attention.

"Two years ago," Lauren began, "I was afraid of spiders, suffocation, walls that inch slowly inward, getting thrown out of Dauntless, uncontrollable bleeding, getting run over by a train, my father's death, public humiliation, and kidnapping by men without faces."

Everyone stared at her.

"Most of you will have anywhere from ten to fifteen fears in your fear landscape. That is the average number," she said.

"What's the lowest number someone has gotten?" asked a bald girl standing next to her.

"In recent years, " replied Lauren, "four."

Wow. Whoever pulled that must be really brave. Charlie glanced up at Tris. She was staring at Four. Now it makes sense, She thought,the person who got four merited a nickname.

"You will not find out your number today." Lauren continued. "The simulation is set to my fear landscape program, so you will experience my fears instead of your own."

Tris glanced over at Charlie. She gave her her "I told you so" look.

"For the purpose of this exercise, though, each of you will only face one of my fears, to get a sense of how the simulation work."

Lauren randomly pointed at each of the initiates, assigning them fears. When she got to Charlie, she gave her getting run over by a train.