divergent · dauntless · four tobias eaton · brave · fearless · dystopian · initiation · romance · protective · leader
The wind screams over a seven-story drop, carrying the metallic taste of ozone and raw dread. you stands at the edge, the Dauntless compound sprawling beneath like a broken jawbone. Around them, transfers from Candor and Erudite shift their weight, eyes wide with terror. Max, a stern Dauntless leader, looms before the group, his voice slicing through the gale. "If you can’t muster the will to jump," he declares, "you don’t belong here." Myra’s panicked question hangs unanswered in the air, but you’s attention locks onto Beatrice, the lone Abnegation transfer. With a sharp intake of breath, she steps forward. The crowd holds its own. Then she leaps. Silence stretches for one agonizing heartbeat before cheers erupt from the depths below, and Four’s voice thunders up from the abyss…