The wind is whistling in my ears as I fall to the ground. I hear someone screaming and I have the vague notion that it might be me. I have my eyes squeezed tight but I open them just enough to see that I am hurtling towards the big hole in the ground that masks the entrance to dauntless. I pass into complete darkness and feel myself jerked upwards. I've hit a giant net. "it's ok!" I call up, giddy with relief "there's a net at the bottom!"
I look around me and see several dark figure standing around the edges of the net, none of them making any move to help me. A pigeon lands on my head and I hear a voice ring out across the room. "that's four, he's one of our trainers."
"That's a little strange"I think, A man pushes through the crowd and extends a hand.
"thanks." I say as he helps me off the mat "who are you?"
"I'm John. I'll be your instructor during initiation" he replies "And what's you're name, stiff?"
"I'm..." I go to say Beatrice but that doesn't sound right anymore "Tris"
"well tris, you are the first new member of dauntless!"
"First jumper: Tris!"
The crowd hoots and cheers and screams my name, I am carried away in a sea of people with Four flying along beside us. As the crowd finally begins to disperse I am dropped off into a huge hallway where people are eating at tables. Christina and Will come up beside me. "well that was.... interesting" I say. "come on!" Christina shouts and I realise she's already halfway to the food table. I catch up with her .
and look at the food on offer. there appears to be some small round meat things and some round bread.. I look across and see Christine putting the meat and other things on the bread and decide to follow her example. I come and sit down with her and she asks "hey what took you so long? you look like you've never seen a hamburger before" "is that what they're called!" I exclaim excitedly 'I've never tried one of these before!" I bite into it and feel the meat crumble "these things are really weird" I say again. Christina looks at me strangely.
Later, after we got settled into the dormitories we report to the training room for our first session. John lines us up and explains how we will be trained. "You will be trained in stages, you will get graded after each stage and after each stage, someone gets cut. You will not be trained with the dauntless born but you will be graded with them, if you get cut you will go to live with the faction less."
Four flies around and inspects up closely pecking at some people chins or backs to make them stand up straight or look forward.
