Tris
Tobias and I walk into the dauntless compound holding hands. Even though we are ghosts, he still feels solid, and warm beneath my touch. Since we are both ghosts, physical contact can be made. If it was a ghost and a living person, all the living person would feel would be cold air that would eventually give them hypothermia.
Cara, Christina, and Caleb follow us and we float into the pit and down to the pathway that leads to the chasm. This brings back memories; my first kiss, Dauntless initiation, the simulation. I remember how my father was with me when I went to the control room. I remember how he got shot. I remember fighting Tobias. There are so many more memories struggling to resurface. I put my hands on the side of my head Pushing the memories out, out, out!
"Are you okay?" Tobias asks me softly as we walk. I hesitate before giving him a small nod. He gives me a worried glance in return but doesn't say anything else.
As we reach the end of the pathway, Caleb and Cara start to look around for clues. After about an hour of scouring every wall, every inch of floor, they come back empty handed.
"Can I see the message?" I ask Caleb.
Caleb nods and pulls it out of his pocket. He holds it up for me to read.
It reads…
Caleb Prior,
Now that my death is inevitable, I shall confide information to you. In the Dauntless compound, along the edge of the chasm, there is a pathway. At the end, there will be a way to open a trapdoor. I trust you will use the clues there, as well as your Erudite brain to solve the mystery. The trapdoor leads to maze in which you will also need all skills I have taught you. At the end of the maze there are three vaults, and they each contain 4 metric tons of death serum. After I am dead, use this death serum to your advantage. I now give you an incantation. Vivo mortuus, morior vivus. Do not use it until the time is right.. This incantation, when said by both a dead spirit and a living one will return the dead spirit back to health, but take the living spirit's life. I will use it to return to you. If you help me, you shall be rewarded when the time is right and I have conquered all of the United States.
Jeanine Matthews
"What clues?" Christina wails. I didn't notice she was reading over my shoulder.
I am about to shrug my shoulders when I notice a small crack in the right side of the passageway near the floor. It is miniscule, and I just noticed it. It is shaped like an arrow pointing up.
"Christina," I say abruptly. She jumps as I startle her and looks at me, eyes wide. "Come here please." She obeys, bewildered.
"Kneel down and touch your finger to that crack," I instruct and she does so. "Run your finger up and down in a straight line along the wall."
As she slowly moves her finger upward, she gasps. "Here, it is fabric." Without me having to tell her to do so, she takes a knife from her brown combat boots and slits open the stone-colored fabric, revealing a small, dark hole. Inside the hole is a red button. Christina looks at each of us it turn, as if asking permission to push it.
Cara walks over to the hole, as Christina backs away to stand beside me. Cara peers cautiously inside. "There are wires that lead to the right. Is there anything over there that could potentially connect to or power this button?"
Tobias shakes his head. "This should be a solid wall of stone." He gestures to the wall.
If there is supposed to be nothing but stone, how are there wires leading in that direction? "Press the button," I order. Cara looks nervous and backs away. Christina, however, apparently has no qualms about possibly creating a dangerous situation. She strides over to the button and jams her finger into it. I see sparks, but nothing else happens.
What is the point of a button if it doesn't do anything? It must be connected to something though. Is it possibly an indirect clue, telling us that there is a passageway hidden in the wall, behind the stone? I walk over to the wall and stick my hand through it.
Tobias seems to catch on. "No," he says, shaking his head. "If you attempt to go in there, you could get lost in the stone."
Not if it is hollow, I think. I can't cause him any more pain though. "Do you have explosives?" I ask, to nobody in particular.
"There should be some left in the weapons storage here in the Dauntless headquarters." Tobias says.
"Great, I will go get them!" Christina sprints off excitedly.
Now we wait.
YEAH! LONGEST CHAPTER YET! (1,008 words)
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