Now i remember why I chose Dauntless. Not because they were brave or anything. But because they were free.

Our city is changing, faster now than ever before, and in order to keep up with it, we'll have to change, too. We'll have to become stronger, braver, better than we are now.

What's your name?
Um...
Think about it. You don't get to pick again.
Tris.

I release the trigger of my gun and drop it. Before I can lose my nerve, I turn and press my forehead to the barrel of the gun behind me.

Shoot me instead.

"One!

Killing you is not the worst thing they can do to you," I say. "Controlling you is.

If you are really one of us, it won't matter to you that you might fail. And if it does, you are a coward.