"No idea. I know that it's pulled us all from different places and most of us had a damned good reason we were in those places," Raleigh says. "I sure didn't want to leave my post to come here and I'm pretty sure you didn't want to either."

It didn't make sense. They were all from different walks of life, different countries, different versions of the world. How had they come here? How had they all been brought together? Was it calculated or was it by chance?