I am broken. It has been a few days since my father banished Dimitri and his father from Armaus. I haven't eaten and I cannot sleep. I feel empty. I keep pulling out the note that my father found, reading it over and over again. I cry every time I read it. I have not spoken to my father since it happened. I miss him so much. The thought that I may never see him again is still settling into my mind and I simply refuse to accept it. I do not want to. I need to try to find him. But I do not know how. I do not know how to get in touch with Dimitri without my father finding out and trying to hurt him. I pull out the other note he gave me; the one he slipped into my pocket the day he was forced out of his home by my father. I start reading it again for the hundredth time: "My ebony p