SAY: Please comment on what the question was and what the answer would be

SAY
part 1

The inevitable silence pervaded the preceding moments following the simple yet metamorphosing utterance. The room was dead; motionless, even the hands on his wrist watch seemed crippled. Seconds felt like hours, and minutes felt like lifetimes; the amount of time that past inconceivable and unmeasurable or at least in that moment. Her lips quivered as ripples on a pond being bombarded by a passing rain storm. As with any storm; this moment, this instant of wretched silence, this too would pass. The author of the thought, his body now whispered hints of wanting to re-envelope the before stated; but this was for the best, this was right. Both sets of eyes were fleeting, glossy points, darting from subject to subject, meeting occasionally as moths to a flame, seeing nothing but thought. A deep breathe was drawn and slowly sighed out, yet nothing was heard. A simple pulse had never been so evident as exactly that point. Veins and arteries were no longer conduits of life giving blood, now pulsating rhythmical drums felt deeply in every fibre of their bodies. Spoken words seemed distant, elusive, unreachable; response was inexpressibly necessary. The words just said were rehearsed, what ensued could not have that luxury. The moment and what was said next stood on a pin’s precipice, chasms of consequences waiting to engulf on all sides. A mouth opened to speek, only silence ensued, the faint motion broke the trance like state of the pair. This was it, the time had come, this was the most critical juncture either of the two had experienced. So much needed to be said, so much could be said, but only one of two words would suffice...