Cia Vale

Cia Vale, the main character in The Testing, is a very intriguing character.  She has so many different sides to her that it's hard not to think about her, even after you've turned the last page of the novel.  If she were a real person,  I think I'd really enjoy talking to her about some of the seemingly insane desicions she made throughout the testing process.  Before she went in for the testing, her father told her to trust no one, yet as soon as her journey began she found herself falling in love with another boy from her colony.  She blindly trusted people,  without even considering their possible motives.  She and the boy from  her colony, Tomas, grew to be friends with a boy from another colony, Will.  During that fourth and final phase of the testing, the candidates were dumped in post-apocalyptic Chicago and told to find their way back to  the original testing site in Tosu City, which we can infer is probably somewhere near or a little bit south of present day Kansas City, Missouri.  She and Tomas meet up at the beginning, in Chicago, and about halfway through find Will.  Tomas urges her not to let him come along, yet she does anyway.  This surprises me and is something I'd definitely like to ask her about.  She was so wary of traps Testing Officials set for them, and was careful not to trigger any, but easily trusted other people, when several candidates had already proven to be deadlier than the traps.   Also, she consistently ignored her father's warning not to trust people, but always thought carefully about his advice for other aspects of the Testing.  When Tomas and Will both proved themselves to be incredibly untrustworthy, she deserved it.  But then, she still couldn't bear to stop loving Tomas.  Instead, she fell into total denial, and blamed Will even though it obviously wasn't him.  Her quote on page 308 proves this.  It reads, "No.  My heart doesn't want to believe it.  Tomas wouldn't" -oops, spolier, can't give that away- "...unless he didn't have a choice.  I left Will and Tomas together.  Isn't it more likely that Will, a proven..." (spoiler) "was the one to do it?  Maybe there was some kind of altercation.  Maybe...."  Is she just too in love with Tomas to bear the possibility that he did something horribly wrong?  Why couldn't she even act slightly wary around him after her realization of what really happened?  Wasn't it enough to make her stop being so lovesick over him?  I really do want to know what she was thinking.