Silence. All that I heard for the next few minutes, was silence. I couldn’t deny the fact that I was just as caught off guard as King Kal and Silen were by Anoa’s statement. Of all the things that I had been expecting her to say, I hadn’t expected her to announce our engagement. I didn’t have a problem with the fact that she had done it. On the contrary, I was rather relieved that it was now out in the open and it was something that we didn’t need to hide anymore, but I couldn’t feel like she could have chosen better circumstances to do it. She should know just as well as anyone that telling her father this news while he is already upset isn’t going to work in our favour. But perhaps she didn’t want it to work in our favour. Perhaps her only focus at this point in time, was to make s