Born Dauntless

Fear Landscapes

Tris Pov

I sit staring at my feet bouncing my leg up and down. As I hear the door open I shoot my head up and see a shaking transfer being carried out of the room. What did they do to her? I feel my hand being squeezed and I see that Lynn has grabbed my hand. Her name is called and then she lets go, gets up, and hurriedly goes through the door.

I wait for what feels like hours till my name is called. I try and hide my cowardice and confidently walk through the door where there is a chair, a computer and Four. He shuts the door and looks at me.

"Okay tris." He says once the door is shut. "I'm overriding the system right now so I can manually put in your test. The first time won't be easy but try and think of what a dauntless would do."

I sit down in the chair and I notice my hands are shaking. What am I nervous? I am THE Tris Pedrad. First in my class. Oh yea now I remember. I'm going into one of my fears right now and going to have to live whatever this nightmare has to offer.

Four comes over with an injection and injects a needle into my neck and I immediately feel drowsy.

"Good luck Tris." I hear before I see darkness.

I open my eyes and I am in a grassy field. I all of a sudden hear a loud noise and I turn around to see thousands of crows flying towards me. Before I could run some start to attack me and I cover my head. I run as fast as I can but they keep attacking till I end up on the hard ground. I'm sobbing and I can't stop. I need to calm down but I can't concentrate while all of these crows are pecking me to death. If only I could escape these crows somehow. Then all of a sudden a hole filled with water appears in format of me and I quickly dive in, my legs still being pecked raw. As soon as I fully emerge in the water I can't see anything.

I open my eyes again and I am back in the room with Four. I begin the breathe heavily remembering what just happened.

"Tris. Calm down ok?" He says putting his hand on my back. I move away quickly and stand up from the chair and walk to the other side of the room. I slide to the floor against the wall and tuck my head in my hands.

"That was terrible." I breathe out.

"It will get better. But you need to work on it more. I could tell from your simulation that you are divergent." I ignore him and try to calm myself down. I've never been like this except when mom died.

"How long do you think you were in there Tris?" He asks.

I look up and him and respond. "30 minutes."

"No. You were in there for three minutes. Three times faster than the fastest time."

Whoa.

"Is that bad?" I ask standing up.

"No it's good. You will keep your spot in first but tomorrow you need to work on thinking like a divergent."

"Oh yea." I say stupidly. I'm supposed to blend in. Beating the record time by three times will not help that.

"Ok. I need to get Uriah in here. You wanna go out the back door?" He asks.

"No. They will think I'm a coward." I say wiping away my tears. "How do I look?"

"As tough as nails Tris." He smiles and I leave the room.