The instant reply if James was weird, and it got even weirder when he added:
"I want all of you."
"What do you mean by all of us?" Alex asked, with some anticipation and suspicion.
James just smiled, as he glanced at his shoulders, where Eli, shyly, was standing there, watching them, doing nothing. His sudden turn startled her, as she, nervously, moved a fantasized hair from her face.
"I want the three of you to work under me," James explained, with short words.
"What do you need us to do?" Alex asked, without showing any strange or doubt towards James, not like Islinda.
"What benefit would it have for us?" Islinda asked with much aggressiveness, while thinking of how to refuse the next offer of James; she didn't like him!
"…" Eli opened her mouth, said nothing, and closed it again in obvious nervousness and hesitation, as her mind went to bad stuff; things she would never expect to be asked for or wanted to do!