I stand at the net in the Dauntless compound, waiting to see the new initiatives. I wonder absentmindedly who would be the first to jump off of the several story high building into a hole in the ground. I expect a dauntless-born to jump. Zeke's little brother is an initiative this year; it could be him. I sigh and think back to when I was an initiate two years ago. Most of the others had already jumped. It was just a couple of girls from Erudite and me. I walked up to ledge and stared down in the hole completely terrified. I jumped, trying not to scream the whole way down.

A shadow blocks out the patch of sunlight casted on the net a moment ago, and I look up. I expect the tiny outline to hesitate, but she doesn't. She falls into the net, not screaming at all. She laughs hysterically and looks around. I reach my hand out to her and she takes it, rolling out of the net. She almost falls but I steady her.

"Thank you," she says.

Her voice is low, for a girl's, especially one as small as she is.

"Can't believe it," Lauren says behind me, "A stiff the first to jump? Unheard of."

I notice her gray abnegation clothes for the first time, surprised. I was from abnegation as well. She is like me. I wonder why she left, and I hope it is a reason very different from my own.

"There's a reason she left them Lauren," I say and turn back to her,"What's your name?"

"Um…," she hesitates.

"Think about it," I say, smiling,"You don't get to pick again."

"Tris," she says confidently.

"Tris," Lauren repeats, "Make the announcement, Four."

I look over my shoulder to the crowd and shout, "First jumper, Tris!"

They erupt into cheers and pumping fists. Then another girl takes the jump, screaming the entire way down. I turn my attention back to Tris.

"Welcome to Dauntless," I say, placing my hand on her back.