"I don't think any of us can say why we choose the people that we do. Forces of the universe? Karma? Blind luck? Everything works out in the end though, doesn't it?"
Of course, she had the benefit of already knowing the circular nature of events.
"All of this has happened before and all of it will happen again."
She slipped off her right heel and then slowly crept her foot back into it. Like Cinderella claiming her glass slipper and the inevitable prize of immortality.
"I never met Gaius's father personally. But I saw him. This was before Gaius noticed me. He had other things on his mind. But I was there."
She chewed on her lower lip, brightly painted and glistening a pinkish glossy hue.
"I suppose, in a way, that's why I'm here in the first place. Because of Gaius's relationship with his father."