Chapter 6 I think


Apologies people of earth for this chapter is late. but that's none of your business. jk i explain why later on.

x Azure


A/N Also, if the source code appears someone please tell me.


When I wake up the next morning, I feel hollow. As though all my innards have been melted and now lie in a puddle in my shoes. And all these missing parts can never be put back the way they used to be. I look around the room, it's airless and windowless, just cold hard concrete and hollows where the blue lamps shine. Its dark, I look at my watch. The small digital face reads 3:16. Usually, in Amity, the sound of the birds can wake you in the early morning, if you live near the woods like I do. Like I did. I get out of bed, shivering in my thin red top. I pull on my pants and boots and walk out of the dorm, leaving my red hair knotted down my back. I walk down countless hallways blindly. I don't know where I am and I could never find my way back- until I make it to the Pit. I climb the stairwells and walk up into the glass Pire, right to the top, and when I realise that it too is sealed off I make my way down again and explore the pit.

…3:45…

Near the chasm I find a door, set into a damp wall. I tug the handle and to my surprise I find it unlocked, I set off down a set of stairs with my heart bumping in my mouth before the tunnel widens and I find myself on the rocks at the bottom of the chasm.

I lean my body out, over the churning waves and feel the gentle spray on my face, it's cold and makes me feel beautifully, viciously alive. Every pore in my body awake and active, wanting desperately to run, leap and bound- expend this energy. I fly back through the door and out, running to the pit again, climbing to the point where the glass just begins. I look around. Yes. With a grim satisfaction, I see the grate, a small air vent. Probably two by three feet set into the wall slightly, dripping with morning condensation. My watch beeps. 4.00. I pull the grate open and push my body into it, crawling and easing my way along on hands and knees until I finally reach the end and push the covering of the vent on the other side. The cover falls straight down. I wait a few seconds before I hear it crash. The sound is distant. All I can see from my vantage is skyline.

I wriggle my body forward and my head and shoulders emerge from the hole to stare directly into a sheer drop, fifty or sixty metres to the asphalt where the mangled mess of the vent cover lies shattered. Just to my left there is a corner where the two buildings meet and the glassy Pire that looms above casts its deep shadow in the wake of a rising, crimson sun, cloudy in the fog. Just below this corner is a small box that I guess must hold electrical circuits. It's just close enough for me to reach with my outstretched hands and perhaps just big enough for me to fit two feet on. I turn my body around so that I'm lying on my back and grip, white knuckled onto a small ridge of patchy brickwork above me, then ease my body out of the vent hole so that I'm hanging by my fingertips. I swing my hips from left to right and gain momentum before letting go and landing on top of the box, clapping hands covered in black, dusty grit.

I finally let myself look down, it's a tangled, sprawling metropolis beneath me, awash in the early morning haze, in the distance the farmlands of Amity can just be seen, spots on the horizon. In front of them, the glittering of the sunlight as it brushes the low-lying ripples of the swamp near the distant silhouette of the stationary Ferris wheel.

It's a breathtaking view.

Lights glint in the direction of the Erudite compound, they've been allowed round-the-clock electricity since the Treaty. Unfair maybe, but peace had to prevail.

Beep. 5:00

The sun has finally made its way over the horizon completely and I sit bathed in orange light, it hasn't been long since I jumped into the compound but the lack of nature and sky and air has me at tenterhooks, tense. Almost wary of danger everywhere I turned, here it was free despite all the thing that could go wrong and kill me, I felt more happy and alive, with this adrenaline coursing through my veins than ever.

A gust of wind reminds me that I am standing on a tiny box and my life could be in danger at any moment. There's no way I'm ever going to be able to get back inside the vent, I look around, I am in many regards stranded on a box in the air, I look over at the wall of the building that stands next to the Dauntless compound. There's a small chance that I can get over it if I jump far enough to grab the top of the valley gutter and pull myself over the edge. It's my only option actually. I brace myself to jump, even if I'm scared, there's no point in waiting any longer, I have to get off the box. The fun is over, panic has begun to set in. During my adrenaline rush, anything and everything could have gone horribly, terribly wrong. What had I done?

I swing my arms forward and jump, one hand, sweaty with fear slips from the metal gutter, I hang by my left hand. It's scary but it's enough. I grab the gutter with my other hand and swing the way I did before, side to side until I have enough momentum to get my legs over the edge and then use my arms to push the rest of myself over the edge and onto the gravelly rooftop.

I lie there for a moment, taking in the morning air. Breathing. In, out, in, out. Blinking my eyes against the rising sun and then sitting up to face the direction of the Pire. It's beautiful when the light catches it, and it glitters like diamonds. I would love to be able to call the place my home, but with initiation ahead, I almost doubt that I could ever make it. I check my watch. Its 5:30 I should try to get back soon. I walk around the building until I find the hole where the net lies hidden at the bottom. After the adrenaline of this morning I let myself fall backwards with my eyes closed, the wind flicking hair about me, I have no qualms about throwing myself off a building now, not anymore.


yeah so i went on school camp and then we were all busy with end of year stuff and it was boring and im now on summer hols so we can expect some updating though i make no promises. Shoutout to Madaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyy for aceing maths.

Adios poops.

X Azure