"Hey listen, I lived in Hawaii. Having a fade kept my head nice and cool. Unlike the many little belts that didn't hold up anything, it was actually functional," Kon said, reading the last few pages of the book.
He tossed it aside like it was trash.
"Done. That was total trash. The Cliff's notes version: we're going to be in post-apocalyptic Chicago, for some reason they're split into factions, based - yes -" He pointed to Raph "- on vocab words. Probably some genetic engineering or weird social engineering thing. Everyone takes a test when they're sixteen to see which one they fit in with the most and get to choose whether to stay where they are or transfer. If you test as having more than one facet to your personality, you're divergent, and people try to kill you because you can think for yourself. Or something. And we need to all pick Dauntless - the crazy people who think being brave is all about showboating - because they're going to be brainwashed by Erudite - the brainy people - to attack Abnegation, the weird culty selfless people that have a thing against mirrors. So that'll give us a chance to infiltrate Erudite. We'll have to make the cut during training, though, they turn out all but the top few to be factionless, aka shunned and homeless."
A pause.
"And also maybe stop a massacre? Not that it's our problem but I'm pretty sure we can sabotage it without much extra work just by, like, existing there. Oh also the lead is a girl named Tris who wants to strike out on her own and protect people. She's kind of daring but also quietly vulnerable, trying to find her way and bildungsing the heck out of that roman. I think she's important to the events of her world so we're gonna have to make sure our presence doesn't knock her out of the running in Dauntless."
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He tossed it aside like it was trash.
"Done. That was total trash. The Cliff's notes version: we're going to be in post-apocalyptic Chicago, for some reason they're split into factions, based - yes -" He pointed to Raph "- on vocab words. Probably some genetic engineering or weird social engineering thing. Everyone takes a test when they're sixteen to see which one they fit in with the most and get to choose whether to stay where they are or transfer. If you test as having more than one facet to your personality, you're divergent, and people try to kill you because you can think for yourself. Or something. And we need to all pick Dauntless - the crazy people who think being brave is all about showboating - because they're going to be brainwashed by Erudite - the brainy people - to attack Abnegation, the weird culty selfless people that have a thing against mirrors. So that'll give us a chance to infiltrate Erudite. We'll have to make the cut during training, though, they turn out all but the top few to be factionless, aka shunned and homeless."
A pause.
"And also maybe stop a massacre? Not that it's our problem but I'm pretty sure we can sabotage it without much extra work just by, like, existing there. Oh also the lead is a girl named Tris who wants to strike out on her own and protect people. She's kind of daring but also quietly vulnerable, trying to find her way and bildungsing the heck out of that roman. I think she's important to the events of her world so we're gonna have to make sure our presence doesn't knock her out of the running in Dauntless."