Mia is hanging off the ledge looking below her fifty feet, probably sure of death. I can hardly breathe as I grab Mia's wrists and struggling, pull her onto the roof. Mia hugs me and starts sobbing into my shoulder and apologizing, and thanking me over an over again. I hug her back for a while, then finally I speak. I am very mad at her. What was she thinking?
"Mia! What heck were you thinking? You were never supposed to leave Erudite compound!" I yell. She looks T me innocently.
"Neither were you." She reminds me. I have no argument.
"Come on. I will explain everything to you." On that roof, I tell her about Jeanine's plans and mine. I tell her about seeing the Dauntless jumping off the roof. I told her about never feeling like I fit into Erudite, and everything else. I tell her about everything, except that I am divergent. But she soon guessed that.
"Your aptitude was not for Erudite was it?" Mia asks me. I am not sure how to answer that. Part of it was. I am silent too long. Mia's eyes widen.
"You're divergent!" She almost shouts. I slap my hand over her mouth and make sure there was no one around us to hear. There was only silence. I take my hand off her mouth.
"Not so loud! But yes, I am. Max and Tori said it was dangerous, so will you just, you know... Not scream it to the world?"
"Sorry, it's a Candor trait I guess." Mia explains.
"No, really?" I ask sarcastically. I then realize what time it is. It's 10:42! The Dauntless will be asleep for sure (or so I thought).
"Come on, we have to go in now. You coming?"
"Without question."
As we run to the roof that I know we have to jump off of, we have another conversation.
"It's not very Erudite of you to come with me. This could end both of our lives. Are you sure you want to come?"
"Absolutely." We continue running. As we approach the ledge, I explain.
"We will have to jump off this roof onto... Something. I don't know what it is, but the Dauntless are smart enough to not make kids jump off fifty foot roofs with nothing underneath. After all, they need members. It's only logical. Lets go."
"Okay, umm yeah, okay." Mia says, looking nervous, but she follows my logic.
"Let's jump together. On three okay? One... Two... Three!"
Mia yelps as we launch ourselves off the roof and land on... A net! Pitch black surrounds us, but we climb off the net and walk foreword until we get to a giant pit. The pit's walls are lined with shops and other things. I scan the huge hole to find a light or a person. My eyes skip over a shop with the lights on.
"Come on." I whisper to Mia. We run to the store. The stairs in this giant marketplace have no railing, so we are forced to press ourselves against the wall. We finally get to he shop. It turns out to be a tattoo parlor. Of course there would be a tattoo parlor in Dauntless. The lady running it walks out and shuts off the light. I recognize her immediately.
"Tori!" I say a I ambush her. She yelps and turns around. Her eyes adjust to the darkness, but she finally recognizes me.
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