“I will protect you Vera, I swear on my life that I will never let anything happen to you…the king will never hurt you again!” He said solemnly yet his voice was filled with determination and so were his eyes. “Do you really promise?” I had to be sure, I have been made so many promises in my life and despite the fact that almost all of them have been broken, I treasure any promise made to me, because a promise is a debt…one has to pay his debt. “I promise you Vera” he said with all seriousness. He meant it, he really did but still. Maybe it was because of my past experiences but Marcus’s promise did not really give me hope as it should instead it got me thinking about so many things. Marcus is... Sometimes he is strange, I honestly do not know who he is because one second he becomes