A/N: Sorrrrryyyy! I know I said I would try to update more often and I promise I will! I have been busy agaaaiiinnn! (I know I always say that but it's true.) Here is chapter 8! Hope you enjoy it! Please read and REVIEW! Enjoy! :-)
Disclaimer: I do not own Divergent or any of the characters. I can't think of another "witty" line for this.
Chapter 8
Tris' POV
When I wake up, I notice I'm not first this morning. A few places in the tent are empty. I scramble to my feet and exit the tent, glancing over my shoulder as I go to check that Tobias is still asleep. He is. Good. It has been almost a week since his encounter with the creepy lizard monster. Since then we've been going to get water in pairs, going anywhere in at least pairs but nothing like that has happened. We haven't seen any animals since then actually but it has certainly made us more careful on this island.
I look around and find Shauna, Zeke and Lynn transporting pieces of wood of all shapes and sizes from the trees to the shore. Confused and still sleepy, I wander over to Lynn who is picking up her next piece of wood and ask, "Umm, what do you plan to do with the wood?"
She gives me a 'really?' look and says, "getting out of here" in a sharp tone.
I wander over to Shauna who greets me much more cheerfully, "Morning Tris! We're building a boat."
Ohh. I nod. "Do you want a hand with that?" I ask and sound very abnegation. Old habits die hard.
"Umm, yeah. We could probably use the extra help." She says so we walk to the wood pile they have somehow created."Not that I haven't thought about it, but how do you actually plan to escape? Where will we go? We don't have a clue where we are." I ask her, amazed that they are actually going to try and do this.
"Well, we were talking to Will, who knows Erudite a little better than we do, and we thought that Jeanine must be spying on us. Otherwise why would she bother speaking to us at the beginning?"
I just nod in agreement.
"She can't have put us that far away from the headquarters because she can only watch us from a certain distance according to Zeke from his time in the control room."
YouI nod again. I can verify that with Tobias later.
"So we think we must not be that far off the coast of Chicago."
By this time we have returned to the growing pile of wood by the shore. I take in everything she tells me and I have more questions than answers, but I keep them to myself for now.
Just then, Tobias comes stumbling out of the tent. We decided his leg was just some bad bruising and he can pretty much walk normally on it now. He is insistent that he is fine and wants to go exploring - I'm trying to keep his tasks fairly simple.
I walk towards him and ask if he wants to come and fill up the water bottles with me.
When we reach the pond, out of earshot, I tell him everything Shauna told me. He just listens and nods - exactly what I did. When I'm done, he verifies that what Zeke said about surveillance is true and seems quite laid back about their plan.
"What do you think?" I ask him.
He contemplates this for a second and says, "What if we never find Chicago?"
This has already crossed my mind and has been battling with my urge to go home for the past ten minutes.
"Then I guess we turn back?" I suggest, already knowing he's going to have an argument ready for this.
"What if we lose our direction? How do we know when to stop looking? How do we know where we should be going? We can't swim- " he sighs
"There are too many faults in this plan."
And I agree with him. It's too risky. We may be dauntless but there is a fine line between bravery and idiocy.
How do we break this to the others?
A/N: Hope you enjoyed! Cliffhanger! I have a couple of ideas for other chapters and I will go back to Tori and Natalie at some point but if you have any ideas let me know and I will try to put them in! ;-)
Who else is excited for Carve The Mark?! :-D
