Chapter 2

Chapter 2: 

Testing Time! Who doesn't love a test that decides your fate? Not Beatrice! She is so terrified that she's shaking and wants to throw up, I know I would.

"My stomach wrenches. I close my eyes and keep them closed until ten minutes later, when Caleb sits down again."

A Dauntless women, Tori, administers the test to Beatrice in a strange room covered with mirrors. The test includes drinking something and being sucked into a simulation. Once in the simulation, Beatrice is forced to choose between a sword and cheese. Why cheese? Beatrice refuses to choose... and immediately regrets her decision. In walks a huge dog (too late to choose the sword) who apparently looks hungry (which explains the cheese). Frantically, Beatrice searches for some way to avoid getting mauled by the dog (how horrible would that be?).

"My Biology textbook said that dogs can smell fear because of a chemical secreted by human glands in a state of duress, the same chemical a dog's prey secretes...If staring into its eyes was a sign of agression, what's a sign of submission?"

She lays down in front of the dog and closes her eyes. The next thing she knows, the dog is licking her face. Good thing she didn't choose the sword. Untill a little girl runs in. Beatrice has to tackle the dog so it doesn't attack the little girl.

"I don't think, I just jump; I hurl my body on top of the dog, wrapping my arms around its thick neck."

Then the dog and the girl are gone. She is on a train and she sees a man with a news paper. Somehow she recognizes the man on the front page... who is a murderer. The the man holding the paper (who is really creepy looking) asks her if she knows who he is. She lies and says no. The man stands up and acusses her of lying.

"'If you know him,' he says in a low voice, 'you could save me. You could save me!'"

And again she tells him no.