Arcanis Institute of Military Academy

Today the newbies will test. We will test our physical abilities, mental abilities, and our personalities. Today is the single most important day of our lives. They will rank us, assess our capabilities, and they will decide our life's path. They will pair us with our future spouse according to our personalities and with the most beneficial outcome for them. We will not find out our spouse until they feel it is beneficial, we are kept in the dark. It is an effective system. Our lack of choice is balanced with the favorable outcome.

The next five years of our lives will be brutal. Failure is not an option. Failure means a life as an outcast, a life of shame. No, I will not fail.

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*DISCLAIMER* I wrote this a few years ago and never finished it. I likely never will. I recently rediscovered it and read though some of it and it's actually not that bad so I decided to go ahead and publish it. Feel free to read it and let me know what you think, I like seeing the comments pop up every now and then.

This is only fanfiction because I realize how similarly the government is structured to Dauntless in Divergent. It is not Divergent fanfiction, but if you enjoyed Divergent, you most likely will like this.