The dorm is a big room with the same floor as the main entry- black with a white balance. The beds are metal framed and their black sheets are tucked in a topped with white pillows. Everything is black and white, just how it should be. Literally and figuratively.
Bianca tells us that tomorrow we get to watch her take the truth serum. She tells us that she is our trainer, but that she has someone as her assistant too. Everything she says is straightforward and I like it.
I'm anxious for the initiation tests. I've always been an honest person, but even I've told lies. Sometimes, it's the rational way, and here is where I learn to separate rational from right.
"Each of you will be assigned a bed. There will be no choosing, because choosing to stay next to friends is biased and we do not tolerate that here." Bianca says to us. "You will be assigned alphabetically."
At that, we all turn to ask everyone around us their names. I don't know if it's by last name or first name, and I don't really care. Its just our sleeping quarters.
Mara elbows me and gestures her eyes to her left. "Oooh that's Drew. He's from my old faction and he's really hot, and if we go by first names we're going to be sleeping near each other!"
I laugh. "I'm guessing this is the one time you like the name Dagmar?"
She glares at me with a sarcastic expression.
"Sorry!" I raise my hands in mock submission. "Spare my life, at least until we get past initiation."
"Will do." She nods and shoves me into the Candor boy from the hallway. He gives me an angry look and when I regain my balance I shove Mara back. She points to the boy behind me and rolls her eyes, and I mouth the words 'I know'.
Bianca calls us to attention and starts assigning out beds. Even though everyone else is quiet, Mara and I exchange jokes under our breath as our trainer reads down the list.
