Tris is too late to warn Tobias about the simulation and when she tries to tell Christina and Will they're already under. Everyone is under the simulation--and are essentially sleepwalking to the tune that Erudite computers are drumming out. Horrified, Tris can only attempt to match their robotic movements and not be noticed. Her mind is erratic and working in overdrive as she processes the entire plan laid out before her. She searches for Tobias, only to find him blank-faced like the rest.
Luckily, he's a good actor.
Tris marches along and recognizes sights from her childhood, noting that "They are so different now. The buildings are dark and empty, and the roads packed with Dauntless soldiers. This isn't the home I know."
I follow a blog on tumblr where a man makes up words for human emotions that we don't have words for in English--or any language. I thought immediately of one of the words he coined when I read this:
It's not quite the same, but similar enough to make a connection
The massacre on Abnegation ground begins and Tris and Tobias can only fall in time with mindless soldiers. That is, until Eric decides that Four might be better off dead. Tris responds without thinking, as if on auto-pilot and threatens to shoot him. Her conscience won't let her shoot him in the head but she does shoot him in the foot. Four shoots his friend and the run for dear life, standing out like sore thumbs against a perfect matching order.
But, capture is inevitable. They are caught in a matter of minutes.
Luckily, he's a good actor.
Tris marches along and recognizes sights from her childhood, noting that "They are so different now. The buildings are dark and empty, and the roads packed with Dauntless soldiers. This isn't the home I know."
I follow a blog on tumblr where a man makes up words for human emotions that we don't have words for in English--or any language. I thought immediately of one of the words he coined when I read this:
kenopsia
n. the eerie, forlorn atmosphere of a place that’s usually bustling with people but is now abandoned and quiet—a school hallway in the evening, an unlit office on a weekend, vacant fairgrounds—an emotional afterimage that makes it seem not just empty but hyper-empty, with a total population in the negative, who are so conspicuously absent they glow like neon signs.
It's not quite the same, but similar enough to make a connection
The massacre on Abnegation ground begins and Tris and Tobias can only fall in time with mindless soldiers. That is, until Eric decides that Four might be better off dead. Tris responds without thinking, as if on auto-pilot and threatens to shoot him. Her conscience won't let her shoot him in the head but she does shoot him in the foot. Four shoots his friend and the run for dear life, standing out like sore thumbs against a perfect matching order.
But, capture is inevitable. They are caught in a matter of minutes.
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