Then we must have been searching in parallel for some time.

[That's - disconcerting. Maybe he saw the too-thin form and thought it was a wraith then, as he did before, or maybe he really was entirely unaware of this new stranger until they almost literally stumbled into each other.]

If we are to search further, then. Perhaps we ought to coordinate.

[The urge to get some space is warring with the thought that a moving skeleton ought to be at least escorted - though...]

From whom did you learn he was missing?