"If you getting all handsy on me is a thing that happens every time I help you catch some falling damsel, I'll have to keep it up," he said as Cassie climbed up. He was grinning as she pulled him up. "'Cause climbing, groping...same thing, really."

Flirting like they'd only just met - like they had back when they were younger - was turning out to be kind of fun.

Kon bowed over, hands on his knees, pretending to catch his breath.

"You okay?" he huffed out to the girl they'd rescued.

"Thank you," she panted, as Beatrice helped her to her feet, "So much. So, so, so much."

"You're wasting our time over there," called out Piercing Boy. "Initiates, here. Now."

He spoke like someone falling off a building and nearly dying was a minor inconvenience. He stood near the edge of the building and gestured down to a hole in the roof of a building below.

"Alright, listen up," said the man. "I'm Eric, one of your leaders. If you wanna enter Dauntless, this is the way in. If you don't have the guts to jump, then you don't belong in Dauntless."

"Is there water at the bottom or something?" asked an Erudite boy.

"I guess you'll find out," said Eric menacingly. "Or not."

"We just jumped and now they want us to do it again?" Christina hissed to Beatrice and the others, sounding understandably put out.

"Someone's gotta go first, who's it gonna be?" asked Eric, looking at the crowd.