'Not directly you,' Apha assured him. 'Just ze way you are relaxing. I haven't seen many do zat before, but it is often amusing.' She didn't mean to sound rude, but the amount of time she'd seen people put their feet on their desk before losing control of their chair and toppling over. Anytime she saw anyone do it, the others had quickly learnt after they'd landed - rather painfully - on the floor.

'Zey are desperate, but I doubt zey would take just anyone. You must have been what zey were looking for in some aspects if not others, otherwise zey wouldn't have taken you on, would zey?' she reasoned. 'Like zis . . . Amelia you mentioned earlier. I bet, if zey put you two together and you iron out each others faults. You balance ze other out.' It was the way she always worked, anyway.