SCHOOL STARTS TOMORROW, SO I MIGHT NOT BE ABLE TO UPDATE AS MUCH! JE SUIS DÉSOLÉ!
ROBERT'S POV
I rode a train to Candor with my friends. Everything was dark.
"What if we get caught?" asked Marco.
"Just don't think about that," said Joy, uneasily.
We made our way into the Merciless Mart. There were already a bunch of people there. I saw my old instructors from initiation, Summer and Winter. Verity and Stella were also there. Cassia waved and walked over to them. Susan was standing alone in one of the corners.
"I'm going to go with my sister," I told my friends, before I walked towards her.
"Hello, Susan," I said.
"Hello, Robert, how are you?" she asked.
"Kind of nervous," I said.
"Yes, me too," she said.
A few more people walked in. The rest of Cassia's sisters and Tris, Tobias and their friends.
Then, two people walked through the door. I recognized them as Johanna and that Erudite girl, Cara.
"Hello," said Cara, causing everyones conversations to stop. "We aren't supposed to be here, so I'm going to keep this meeting short. Some of you—Zeke, Tori—have been helping us for the past few days."
Johanna continues, "Some of you are here because we want to ask for your help. All of you are here because you don't trust Evelyn Johnson to determine the fate of this city."
"We believe in following the guidance of the city's founders, which has been expressed in two ways: the formation of the factions, and the Divergent mission expressed by Edith Prior, to send people outside the fence to help whoever is out there once we have a large Divergent population. We believe that even if we have not reached that Divergent population size, the situation in our city has become dire enough to send people outside the fence anyway. In accordance with the intentions of our city's founders, we have two goals: to overthrow Evelyn and the factionless so that we can reestablish the factions, and to send some of our number outside the city to see what's out there. Johanna will be heading up the former effort, and I will be heading up the latter, which is what we will mostly be focusing on tonight." She presses a loose strand of hair back into her braid. "Not many of us will be able to go, because a crowd that large would draw too much attention. Evelyn won't let us leave without a fight, so I thought it would be best to recruit people who I know to be experienced with surviving danger."
"Christina, Tris, Tobias, Tori, Zeke, and Peter are my selections," Cara said. "You have all proven your skills to me in one way or another, and it's for that reason that I'd like to ask you to come with me outside the city. You are under no obligation to agree, of course."
"Peter?" demanded Tris, clearly angry.
"He kept the Erudite from killing you," Cara said.
"That's a lot of Dauntless," said an Erudite girl with a tattoo behind her ear.
"True," Cara said. "But what we need right now are people with the skills to get out of the city unscathed, and I think Dauntless training makes them highly qualified for that task."
"I'm sorry, but I don't think I can go," said a tall looking boy with dark hair. "I couldn't leave Shauna here. Not after her sister just . . . well, you know."
"I'll go," said a boy who I assumed was the other boys brother. "I'm Dauntless. I'm a good shot. And I provide much-needed eye candy." Laughs rippled through the crowd.
"Thank you," said Cara, not seeming amused.
"Cara, you'll need to get out of the city fast," said the Erudite girl. "Which means you should get someone to operate the trains."
"Good point," said Cara. "Does anyone here know how to drive a train?"
"Oh. I do," the girl said. "Was that not implied?"
"What about when you reach Amity, we'll drive you in trucks out of the city," suggested Johanna. "Any volunteers?"
I raised my hand, I saw my friends, Sumer and Winter do the same. It might not be dangerous or take too much courage to drive a truck, but I would still be helping. Johanna nodded.
"We can watch Evelyn," said an older woman with a girl, who I assumed was her daughter, sitting next to her.
"We can get you guys weapons," said a Dauntless woman.
Cara and the Erudite girl figured out how to patch up any holes in the plan, prodding at everything that could go wrong. Finally we had it.
"When should we go?" asked Cara.
Tris spoke, "Tomorrow night."
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