AFTER SHE KILLED WILL AND THE LOSS OF HER MOTHER, TRIS WAS IN DEPRESSION FOR WEEKS. SHE JUST COULDN’T KEEP IT ALL IN, SO SHE CONFIDED EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENED TO TOBIAS. SHE FELT LIKE IT WAS A SIMULATION, A FOREVER LASTING, DREAD-FILLED ONE. IT WAS SO HARD TO BEAR SHE COMPLETELY LOST HER GRIP ON REALITY. TOBIAS HELPED HER SORT HER MIND OUT, BY TELLING HER WHAT WAS REAL AND WHAT WASN’T, LIKE HER LOSING CONTROL IN THE CHASM, OR GETTING PECKED BY THOSE DEATH CROWS. TRIS’S HEART WAS FILLED WITH AGONY WHEN SHE ASKED, ‘I KILLED WILL AND MY MOTHER DIED FOR ME. REAL OR NOT REAL?’ AND TOBIAS ANSWERED, WITH DREAD IN HIS EYES, 'REAL.’
