Chapter Thirty Five - The One Where Tris Might Die

Tris is in a container with water rising around her. Really? This again? This time there is a video camera present. She starts to freak out, but then realizes the inevitable truth: there is no way out. At this point, Tris accepts death and will not struggle. As she starts to die, she relies on her religion. She remembers her mother at her baptism.

Plot twist in 3..2..1..

Abnegation: the safest of them all... Well, not anymore

Apparently in Divergent-world, if you think about something, it has to come true. I say this because none other than Tris' mother shows up right in the nick of time. She breaks the container and rescues Tris. She has guns, a tattoo that Tris has never noticed, and has been shooting guards. Tris' mom is one Bad Mother.... nevermind. Apparently, Tris' mother had seen the sleepwalking soldiers earlier and knew she needed to find and save Tris.

Another plot twist: Tris' mom is divergent! She chose to leave Dauntless and join Abnegation because she needed to find a safer life and was afraid that she wouldn't last in Dauntless as a divergent. She reveals that the divergents are dangerous because they can't be easily controlled like the others.  

"You're my daughter... I don't care about the factions... Human beings as a whole cannot be good for long before the bad creeps back in and poisons us again."

Tris' mother tells her to run and find the rest of her family and that she will be a decoy to buy her some extra time. Tris doesn't want to leave, but once her mother runs into a group of Dauntless soldiers, she knows that she needs to find the rest of her family.

"Be brave, Beatrice. I love you."