After an hour of wallowing in my sadness, I decided to pull myself together. It hurt knowing Dimitri had been taken away from me but if I just sat here crying about it, then nothing could be done. I wiped my tears away, taking a few deep breaths before getting up. Esther believes I can save Dimitri and if she believes I can, then I must be able to. I wanted to believe I could, but I just couldn’t get myself to actually believe it. I just didn’t think something like that could be possible. I know I’ve done a lot of things I used to think impossible. Things I could never have ever imagined doing. Things I could never think possible. But I just felt hopeless. I felt pathetic. I already failed to stop Dimitri from surrendering himself to the Shadow. If I couldn’t stop him then, then how am I

