All mouths on deck is what happened here when they heard who was requesting an audience with Mikeal.
He does act like a mature grown-ass man but that is not enough to dispute his age. And to think that a girl his age would come looking for him. Quote; PERSONALLY.
Natural and as smoothly as possible, their minds went straight to the obvious.
There was no telepathic communication involved, their minds simultaneously went straight to thinking in the same direction.
"What do you say Anna. Can I at least be allowed to see her".
She was against him going out because she feared that the delegates might sniff in on his weakness concerning his father.
Now that the tables have turned and the meeting is not with the delegates but with a child, she should be okay with it.