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Chapter 43: Tris
Overview
Tris practices marksmanship to regain control after her fear simulation and meets friends atop the Hub for a celebratory picnic. A confession game reveals Tris and Four’s romantic connection, while Christina advances covert training and Colin enters the Healers. On the roof, Tris chooses belonging with the factionless, solidifying her identity and alliances.
Summary
Tris practices in the Museum’s shooting gallery, driven by Tobias’s advice and lingering fear-simulation memories. Christina finds her there and reports progress in covert Fox training after struggling with being too noticeable. They head to the Hub with supplies to celebrate Colin passing the Healers Guild entrance test.
Rory and Colin restore an elevator to reach the top floor, and the group picnics by an intact window. They play a confessions-and-drinking game: Colin admits failing initiation; Rory reveals punching her sister’s ex; Tris shares learning about sex from a book with Caleb; and Christina triggers Tris’s admission that she made out with Four, surprising everyone.
The mood remains warm and teasing, but the scene underscores growing trust among Tris, Christina, Rory, and Colin. Christina’s covert skills improve, and Colin steps toward becoming a medic, hinting at broader factionless capability and support networks.
Afterward, they climb to the roof. Looking over the city, Tris reflects on Dauntless, Abnegation, and the Foxes, realizing she has not diminished herself to belong. Embracing the factionless’ freedom and breadth of knowledge, she decides she belongs with them now. She and Christina affirm their friendship as the sun sets.
Who Appears
- Tris (Beatrice Prior)Practices marksmanship, admits kissing Four, and decides she belongs with the factionless atop the Hub.
- ChristinaAdvancing in Fox covert training; organizes a celebration; prompts Tris’s confession; affirms their friendship.
- RoryAmity-born Fox; restores elevator with Colin; shares a past fight; supports the group’s camaraderie.
- ColinPasses Healers Guild entrance test; helps power the elevator; initiates the confession game.