Chapter Eighteen - The One With The Simulations

Today marks the first day of Stage 2 of initiation. Everyone is sitting quietly in a hallway and Four is calling each person individually after long intervals of time. Eventually, Tris is called and Four leads her back to a room. Four explains that it is a simulation room and she will have to face her fears and control her emotions. Four injects her with the simulation serum and it is go time.

"Be brave, Tris."

See? They aren't so bad

The fear Tris faces in her first simulation involves a swarm of crows. For whatever reason, this really scares her. All of a sudden, she is furiously pecked on every inch of her body by the swarm. Ohhh. Now I get why she is scared. This simulation takes a really long time (to her) to get over. When she can finally calm herself down in the simulation, she regains consciousness in reality. She notices that she had been crying and she is really shaken up from it. She gets angry when she thinks that she had been in the simulation for a long time, but Four tells her that she had only been in it for a few minutes. Really? Only that long? The others took about half an hour on average. That's impressive.

Tris needs assistance from Four to leave the room. When they reach the room to the dormitory, Tris thanks Four and asks if she looks like she had been crying.

"No Tris, you look tough as nails."