You may call it a chance encounter. But I have my doubts there is any reason for us to become further acquainted. Unless... you plan on being meddlesome.

[and somehow, he gets the feeling "meddlesome" is exactly what he's going to get here.

spirits tend to be that way, he's learned. either they don't care about helping at all, they're wreaking havoc...

or they're getting into messes that they don't have a place to.

(why this?)]