Allegiant: Secret Ending

Final Goodbye

Tris

We arranged our trip back into the city where we would continue to live out the rest of our days. For Uriah's funeral, we scattered his ashes into the chasm, all telling stories about his bravery. We whooped and hollered, but our hearts weren't in it. It was just too much to grasp. Uriah, one of my first friends in Dauntless, is gone. And he will never be returned to us.

I realize in this moment that I will need to be a different kind of brave than I have ever been before. This kind of brave isn't about throwing yourself in front of a bullet to save someone else. There are so many different kinds of bravery. The one everyone knows best is sacrificing yourself for something bigger than you. Sacrificing everything, even your life, for the greater good. But sometimes, being brave is nothing more than clenching your teeth, and walking through the pain each day brings. Having to wake up each day with demons at your bedside, and then fighting them off, not getting one day of rest. Sometimes bravery is letting something go. Letting someone go. This is the kind of brave I will need to be now.

I lean into Tobias, and kiss him for the last time on the chasm.