Vera thought about this as she played with her hair. "My best friend?" she repeated and looked at her dolls on her bed. "Like my dolls?" she asked him. She never had a best friend before. The only friends she had were her dolls....and she loved each and everyone of them. "I guess it wouldn't hurt to try that..." she said to him.

The king smiled and nodded, "okay then, lets go show you your new friend." he said as he lead the way out of there. He then chuckled slightly, "and yes he will be your friend like your dolls but he will be a living breathing human being. He will do as you say but he is still living." he said as he looked at his daughter. He hoped that she would finally find some happyness. He then found his way to isaacs door and smiled at Vera, "now I would like for you to met Isaac." he said as he opened the door. Isaac had managed to get out of his chains and was just laying on the floor and looking at the ceiling when they opened his door and he smiled.

"Isaac....such an odd name." she said and looked at the boy on the floor. For a second there, she had thought he was dead, but noticed that he was breathing. Vera didn't approach the boy and looked at her father. "You should tell him his new mission father." she said and wiped her eyes to get the tears off. The room was very dark and looked boring, she was surprised he was still alive. She didn't think she could live in such a horrible room. It was dark and scary looking with no window to look out from into the outside world.

Isaac picked up his head when he heard mission and was ready for anything. The king nodded and smiled at Vera, "yes I should." he said and then looked atisaac. "come here, I have a new mission." he said and Isaac got to his feet in one swift motion and was soon kneeling infront of the king. "ready to serve." he said even though he wasn't a fan of the king. The king nodded, "good, for now on you are to protect my daughter Vera and stay at her side. Keep her safe and listen to what ever she wants." the king said and Isaac then looked at Vera. She looked cute and he smiled at her, "I am here to serve and guard." he said to her.

Vera looked down at Isaac and shrugged. "We'll see..." she said to him. "Father...I'm going to my room now." she said and kissed his cheek. "I'll see you in dinner time." she said to him and ran off to her room. She loved her room, it was her favorite place to be in...in second came the garden. Vera only went to the garden at nighttime before going to bed. It was out of habit since she would do it when her mother was still here too. "Hello little dolls. I have a guard now...father wanted me to get one...so I said yes." she said to her dolls. "I wonder how this will turn out...I never had a guard before...but father says he'll be my best friend...like you all." she said to them and smiled. "I'll see about that though...you all know that I am quiet and rarely talk to people I don't know." she said and giggled.

The king smiled as he watched her go and looked at Isaac, "follow her, protect her, that is a order." he said and Isaac nodded. Isaac then headed out after Vera and felt a little werid not sneaking around. he usually had to, it was his job to sneak around and kill. But this as a different kind of job and he hoped he liked it. he soon got to Veras room when he saw her talking to her dolls and looked at them. ONce she was done he looked at her, "can the dolls really talk and listen to you?" he asked as he looked at them. He didn't know much about the real word, only how to kill so he had a lot to learn.

"You didn't knock...It's okay. I don't get mad." she said and looked at her dolls and thought about his question for a while before answering. "My dolls can't listen or talk to me...but I pretend that they do." she explained to him. He was a good looking commoner, but that meant nothing to her. "So father thinks that this will make me happy, we will see about that now won't we?" she asked him and hopped down from her bed. "I do not know how you could live in such a small room for so long. I would have died in there." she said and cleaned her room since she was bored. "I'm bored...what should I do now?" she asked herself.

Isaac just stood there and watched her, he hardly ever got to see what a regular person acted like. "knocking? Why would I knock and what exactly is it?" he asked since he had been tought to kill and only kill. He really didn't know anything of the outdoors, only a few thing he heard here and there. He then poked the one doll, it looked like it should be alive and he wondered why if it had ears why didn't it speak. He then looked at her, "I loved there my whole life so I don't know any better. That place was my home and prision." he said and then looked outside. "and I would go outside and have fun. I hardly ever got to do anything fun, what kind of games can you play to have Fun?" he asked her since he really did t k ow.

"Knocking is this!" she said and knocked on her door twice. "That is what knocking is. It is required to do before entering a room." she explained. Vera watched Isaac carefully and looked out the window. "Let us go outside then." she said and began to walk away from him. "We can do a lot of things for fun." she said and went outside. "We can hide and have the other find the hiding person. So if I hide...you have to find me. If you hide, I have to find you." she explained and looked around happily. "Well now you are free of your prison...and if you are a good guard, I'll try to get you a comfortable room to sleep in." she said to him and began to run off to the park and headed for the swings.

Isaac nodded and watched her carefully as she knocked on the door. He looked like a little kid just learning about the world and then nodded when he heard her, "okay, I will knock on your door from now on." he said as he looked at her. "and that sounds like fun, we can play if you like." he said as he looked at her. She was the person he was suppose to protect and he would make sure he didn't mess up. "and I will do a good job, I was trained to kill so guarding shouldn't be a problem." he said as he smiled at her. He then ran after her when she ran towards the park and wondered what was in the park that they could do.

When she reached the swings, she got on and smiled at him. "Okay then...I want you to close your eyes and count to ten. I will hide while you count. When you are done counting, you have to go look for me and find me!" she instructed. "Guarding can be a problem depending on who you guard." she said and smirked. "So go ahead and close your eyes and count...I want to go hide." she said and giggled. She wondered where she would hide...but decided to think about that later.

Isaac nodded as he looked at her, "okay that seems simpil enough and just to say I am good at finding people." he said as he closed his eyes and started to count slowly. He hoped he owuld be good at this game since he ahd to track people down for a living. If he couldn't track her down and find her it would be like failing his job.

As Isaac counted, Vera ran off to the town and looked around for a place to hide. She continued running and fell down scraping her knee. "Ouch..." she said and climbed a tree hoping that was a good hiding spot. She looked at her scraped knee and saw that it was bleeding. That was not good....she held a hand over it so that the blood wouldn't drip to the floor, and waited.

Isaac soon finished counting and looked around, "okay I am coming after you." he said and started to look around for her. He listened to everything and looked at the ground. He slowly was making his way after her and soon he got to the tree she had climbed. He smiled and heard the creak of the branch. "got you." he said as he looked up at her. But when he saw her hand over her knee he got worryed. IN less then a second he was up the tree with her, "are you okay?"

"You found me...that was fun! Let's do it again!" she said and looked at his face and sighed. "I am fine...just hurt my knee while running. I fell..." she said and removed her hand. It was smeared with blood from her knee and she looked at it then at Isaac. She wondered what he would do and hoped that they could play again.

Isaac looked at her knee worryed and then dug into his pockets. He pulled out some bandages and medicine. He had learned to always carry medical supplys where ever he went since he never knew hen he might need them. he gently placed the medicine on the knee and then wrapped it up gently. "you need to be carefull and once we are done playing change the bandage again." he said as he looked at her and smiled. The scrape wasn't to bad but she would still have to be careful.

Vera winced and watched him bandage up her knee. "Okay then...I'll be more careful." she said and sighed as she jumped down from the tree. "Count again, I'll go hide again..." she said and smiled up at him. "Then when we finish playing, maybe we can do something that you want to do okay?" she said up to him. Maybe her father was right...maybe this would make her happy again. Vera removed that thought from her head and began to think of a place to hide in.

Isaac nodded and then started to hand upside down from the branch. "okay but try to hide better." he said as he smiled at her. He then closed his eyes and started to count like that. As he counted he thought of what he wanted to play, his usual fun game was to count all the blocks in his cell or running around. Now that he was out what was there to do.

Vera yawned and ran off to the castle. When she got there, she looked around and wondered where to hide. "Hmmm....were would he not look...the oven?" she said and shook her head. "Too risky..." she said and ran around. She couldn't think of a place to hide in.

After a little while Isaac was done counting and dropped down from the tree. He landed on the ground in a hand stand and started to walk to the house on his hands, "here I come." he said and decided he would continue playing like this.

Vera fidgeted and looked around. She ran off int the laundry room and hid under a pile of clean laundry. She made sure she was hidden completely and waited to be found. She knew he would find her, but it was still fun just to wait...it was suspenseful in a way.

Isaac continued to look for her and after a little bit found the laundry room. He looked around but then saw the pile of laundry, it looked like it was breathing. He smirked and walked over to her and got to his feet the. "got you." he said and poked the pile.

Vera giggled and poked her head out. "You're very good at this you know." she said and smiled up at him. "Let's change my bandage and I'll go change so that father doesn't see the bandage." she said to him and began to run off to her room. "Come Isaac, hurry up now!" she called and looked back to make sure he was following her.

Isaac smiled and nodded, "okay." he said and ran after her. He found that he was happier then he had ever been before, he doughted the he hardly even knew what happness was before today. He soon got to her room a little before her and smiled at her, "lets change that bandage." he said as he looked at her and found he couldnt' help but smile.

Vera sat down on her bed and stuck out her leg with the bandaged knee. "Okay...change the bandage. What should we do now Isaac?" she asked him. She wondered what other things they could do and decided that maybe they should know each other a little better. "I know. We will get to know each other better because we'll be together now..you will be guarding me always." she said and chuckled. "My name is Vera Coquille..I am nineteen and the princess...but I'm sure you knew that. I like to run around and hide. I also like to look at the moon for hours before I actually sleep." she said and smiled up at him.