She walks away, and I am too stunned to follow her. At the end of the hallways she turns and says, Have a piece of cake for me, all right? The chocolate. It's delicious. She smiles a strange, twisted smile, and adds, I love you, you know. And then she's gone. I stand alone in the blue light coming from the lamp above me, and I understand: She has been to the compound before. She remembered this hallways. She knows about the initiation process. My mother was a dauntless.
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