There is always somthing to learn, always somthing that is important to understand

THE SERUM WEARS off five hours later, when the sun is just beginning to set. Tobias shut me in my room for the rest of the day, checking on me every hour. This time when he comes in, I am sitting on the bed, glaring at the wall. “Thank God,” he says, pressing his forehead to the door. “I was beginning to think it would never wear off and I would have to leave you here to … smell flowers, or whatever you wanted to do while you were on that stuff.

Cowardice is how you decide to be in real life

But now, I am also learning this: we can be mended. We mend each other.

Well, I already know what happened to my face", I say. "I was there. Sort of

It is amazing how pretending to be in a different faction changes everything -- even the way I walk. That must be why it's so strange that I could easily belong in three of them.

We share a common enemy, but does that make us friends?