Ignite.
It was a strange thing to see.
They stumbled around the Pit with haunted, swollen red eyes. Their hands shook and their lips trembled, some of them openly cried. Everyone had his or her heads bent down, no one wanting to meet someone else's gaze.
It made Tris want to scream.
It was like someone had smothered the flame that lit up the members of Dauntless. The light of excitement and mischief that usually flickered in their eyes was gone, extinguished by grief and guilt.
Even her Tobias, who she had only seen lack his fire in the Fear Room, had his head bent down.
She couldn't take it anymore.
"Why are you all so quiet?"
Her voice rang out eerily over the silent Pit.
Hundreds of eyes glanced up at her, dead and dull.
It pushed her forward.
"Why are you acting like this? Why are you so shamefaced? What did you do?"
"We killed people! Innocent people! What are we supposed to do!" The voice wasn't old but it wasn't young either. Tris's eyes found a woman in her early thirty's; her face was lined with tears.
Tris's hands curled into fists, "what do Dauntless usually do when we're scared of something? We over come it, don't we?" Her voice was challenging and remarkably unshaken.
Tris barely recognized it as hers.
She now had the attention of the entire Pit, all of them looking up at her, some still with dead eyes others flashing with…something.
"Who said we were scared?" this came from a boy who looked to be about a year or two her senior, but Tris couldn't be sure.
His voice shook.
"Then why are you crying? It's not like you killed them because you wanted to, you were betrayed, we all were." Her voice dipped as her own memories rose up, along with the pain
She swallowed. "But we're Dauntless, right? We overcome things that make others cry, we don't let anyone break us, not even our own. Am I right!"
There was a muffled cry from a few of the younger ones.
Tris glared, "so you're going to let Erudite win are you?" Several people looked up. "You're going to stand down and show them that Dauntless was crushed because of a cowardly trick?"
There was a loud chorus of no's, Tris smirked.
"I didn't think so." She said quietly, looking around at her fellow members. "Dauntless needs to pull its self together, we have a new group of initiates coming here in less than a month, are we going to show them a weak Dauntless?"
The crowd replied no.
"Are we going to show them a scared Dauntless?"
The crowd roared back their answer.
Tris smiled. "Good. Now, I believe we should all get back to work. As I said before we only have a month and this place is a dump."
That got a couple of laughs as everyone returned to what they had been doing before, though this time it sounded more like the Dauntless she was used to.
Still smiling a little Tris walked off to go find Tobias, hoping that her speech would be enough to at least help Dauntless once again ignite their flame.
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