The fire, the fire. It rages within, a campfire and then an inferno, and my body is its fuel. I feel it racing through me, eating away at the weight. There is nothing that can kill me now; I am powerful and invincible and eternal.

Yes," she says, her eyes bright with tears. "My dear child, you've done so well.

I didn't realize until that moment that Dauntless initiation had taught me an important lesson: how to keep going.

She can't possibly be me, though she moves when I move

As a teenager, I put a lot of pressure on myself, and a lot of that, for me, was about finding a moral high ground. As I've grown up, I've decided to abandon that because it made me judgmental and also stressed me out.

That is how it feels. Like everything between us is twisted together, friendship and love and family, so I cant tell the difference between any of them.

My skepticism is strong, but my curiosity is stronger.