Describe a chance encounter that changed your life

My life hasn’t really been one of chance encounters. It’s not as though I met a man in a pub who knew of a job going at the Watchers’ Council and would I be interested? My grandmother was a Watcher, then her son, and it was assumed I was next to join the “family firm”.

My life in general traveled in some well-worn middle-class grooves. The boarding school, the uni. I can’t say that meeting Ethan Rayne was a haphazard occurrence since we spent several years together in school. We could have scarcely avoided one another if we tried.

Running across a demon did change my life, but is it chance if you summoned it?

I wonder if the tracking of the Slayers in order to gather them and combat The First qualifies under the category. Most of us would never have met otherwise. And why else were these girls chosen to be Slayers but the operation of chance?

The girls that I collected certainly had their lives changed by an encounter with me, so maybe they should be answering this question. But of course, many of them are dead and can no longer ponder fate. For me to do it for them is presumptuous.

I can’t say I don’t do it, but only under the influence of several strong whiskies. And I try to recall all of their names. I can be quite maudlin under the influence.