The Kingdom of Eternal Winter (Divergent Fourtris Fanfiction)

Chapter 13

"Wake up, Beatrice, come on! We need to hurry."

Someone shook her shoulder. Insistently.

"Breakfast will be served soon, and we still need to decide if we go to Candor or Abnegation first. And you said you wanted to do some training with Marlene? I wonder when you're going to have time for that, too. Get up!"

Christina was right. Beatrice blinked at her friend. She was already dressed, her hair was done, and she looked at Beatrice expectantly.

"Oh, great, now that you're awake, put on some clothes and pin up your hair, I'm starving. I was looking forward to this breakfast all week, so I don't want to miss any of it just because you sleep like a troll. You certainly snore like one."

Beatrice wasn't used to being talked to this early after waking up, so she just grabbed the stack of clothes Christina put into her lap and scrambled out of bed to get dressed. When she looked in the mirror, she realized her hair was all over the place. She hastily fixed it into a bun. It had never taken her much time to get ready for the day.

Breakfast was just as delicious as in the week before. There were several more empty seats this morning than back then, so she and Christina had chosen to sit a little off from the rest of the girls to talk about their plans.

They had exchanged what each had learned from the rest of the contestants last night after the ball. Their information coincided. Most girls who had chosen to visit their own province first were still in the competition, and nobody had failed Amity. But none of the girls who had started there had won the corresponding gemstone either. Christina had also heard that the highest number of failures had taken place in Dauntless.

Based on that knowledge, they had already narrowed their options down to Candor and Abnegation as their next two provinces. Probably Erudite after that, but it was hard to say, since they hadn't heard anything about the actual tasks. Dauntless would be the last place to visit, after they'd had some time for training. Maybe until then, there'd be some insight into what was to do there.

Discussing their options, Christina finally gave in to Beatrice's wish to choose Abnegation next.

"Right, we'll go there first so you can check on your mother. But after that, we'll do Candor. I want to visit my family, too," she said.

"Thank you. I'm really anxious to see my mother. She wasn't well when I left, and they expect me to return any day now. I don't want them to worry."

Christina frowned at her. "Don't you think they've heard of the competition by now?"

"Yes, I suppose. But they would never expect me to take part in it. I have never done anything as reckless as this before in my life."

"Me neither, probably. Not this reckless."

"See, I haven't done anything reckless, as far as I can remember."

"It's good you've changed that. You're too vivid to spend all your life in Abnegation with all the strict rules you have there."

"I'm not sure if it was my wisest decision to come here, but I agree, it's definitely more exciting than anything else I've experienced."

"You most certainly look happy this morning, so you can't be all wrong."

"I do feel lighthearted today."

"Could that have to do with the dance last night?"

"Maybe. He didn't seem to be too keen on asking me to dance, though. It was the very last dance of the evening." - "What?" she added when Christina looked at her as if she had lost her mind.