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I feel a spike of terror She looks almost likeJeanine

No, I saw her die Jeanine is dead

The woman comes closer She is statuesque and blond, like Jeanine A pair of glasses dangles from her front pocket, and her hair is in a braid An Erudite from head to foot, but not Jeanine Matthews

Cara

Cara and Johanna are the leaders of the Allegiant?

"Hello," Cara says, and all conversation stops She smiles, but on her the expression looks co to a social convention "We aren’t supposed to be here, so I’ short So us for the past few days"

I stare at Zeke Zeke has been helping Cara? I guess I forgot that he was once a Dauntless spy Which is probably when he proved his loyalty to Cara--he had some kind of friendship with her before she left Erudite headquarters not long ago

He looks at rins

Johanna continues, "Some of you are here because ant to ask for your help All of you are here because you don’t trust Evelyn Johnson to determine the fate of this city"

Cara touches her paluidance of the city’s founders, which has been expressed in tays: the forent mission expressed by Edith Prior, to send people outside the fence to help whoever is out there once we have a large Divergent population We believe that even if we have not reached that Divergent population size, the situation in our city has becoh to send people outside the fence anyway

"In accordance with the intentions of our city’s founders, we have two goals: to overthrow Evelyn and the factionless so that we can reestablish the factions, and to send some of our number outside the city to see what’s out there Johanna will be heading up the for up the latter, which is ill ht" She presses a loose strand of hair back into her braid "Not e would draw too ht, so I thought it would be best to recruit people who I know to be experienced with surviving danger"

I glance at Tobias We certainly are experienced with danger

"Christina, Tris, Tobias, Tori, Zeke, and Peter are my selections," Cara says "You have all proven your skills to me in one way or another, and it’s for that reason that I’d like to ask you to coree, of course"

"Peter?" I deine what Peter could have done to "prove his skills" to Cara

"He kept the Erudite fro you," Cara says y to fake your death?"

I raise ht about it before--too much happened after my failed execution for me to dwell on the details of my rescue But of course, Cara was the only well-known defector from Erudite at that time, the only person Peter would have known to ask for help Who else could have helped him? Who else would have kno?

I don’t raise another objection I don’t want to leave this city with Peter, but I’m too desperate to leave to irl at the side of the roo skeptical She has thick eyebrows that don’t stop growing in the middle, and pale skin When she turns her head, I see black ink right behind her ear A Dauntless transfer to Erudite, no doubt

"True," Cara says "But e need right now are people with the skills to get out of the city unscathed, and I think Dauntless training hly qualified for that task"

"I’o," Zeke says "I couldn’t leave Shauna here Not after her sister justwell, you know"

"I’ll go," Uriah says, his hand popping up "I’ood shot And I provide h Cara does not seem to be aet out of the city fast," the Dauntless-turned-Erudite girl says "Which et someone to operate the trains"

"Good point," Cara says "Does anyone here kno to drive a train?"

"Oh I do," the girl says "Was that not iests we take Amity trucks from the end of the railroad tracks out of the city, and she volunteers to supply them to us Robert offers to help her Stephanie and Rose volunteer to monitor Evelyn’s movements in the hours before the escape, and to report any unusual behavior to the Amity compound by tay radio The Dauntless who cairl prods at any weaknesses she sees, and so does Cara, and soon they are all shored up, like we have just built a secure structure

There is only one question left Cara asks it:

"When should we go?"

And I volunteer an answer:

"Toht"

CHAPTER NINE

TOBIAS

THE NIGHT AIR slips into s, and I feel like it is one of my last breaths Tomorroill leave this place and seek another

Uriah, Zeke, and Christina start toward Erudite headquarters, and I hold Tris’s hand to keep her back

"Wait," I say "Let’s go somewhere"

"Go so her toward the corner of the building At night I can almost see what the water looked like when it filled the empty canal, dark and patterned withto arrest you"

A twitch at the corner of her ainst the wall and I stand in front of her, the river atdark around her eyes to

"I don’t knohat to do" She presses her hands to her face, curling her fingers into her hair "About Caleb, I mean"

"You don’t?"

She moves one hand aside to look at me