Now that @Ally was at last home and safe, Eros just had to find his brother. The last they'd run into each other had been over a month prior, he would be circling back soon, wouldn't he? So much energy spent by himself and so many others within the pack, and yet it was like Archer and his daughter were magnets of like-poles, refusing to come together.

But they were so much closer now than they ever had been since they'd first attempted to reintegrate into the Backwater. These pieces of his heart would fall back into place eventually, they had to.

His nose picked up on the presence of someone else, a foreign lacework of information that meant little to him without that initial recognition. What did matter was that maybe somewhere within a stranger's head, a memory of Archer existed, a way to finding where he was now.

"Hello?" he called out, picking his way through the forest toward the scent and sound of moving water. His gaze would land on the individual's back seconds later.

"Hey, can I have a moment?"

Eros' tail wagged at the affirmative response, not at all affronted by the directness. In fact, it was entirely what he wanted, to get to the answer of what he really wanted to ask as quickly as possible.

"Yes. Have you maybe come across an Archer Valle? Black with gray accents, colorless eyes? He's got an average-sized build, pretty thin? Like, ragged, thin."

The words came out quickly, hoping that if one detail didn't strike a chord another would. Perhaps even subconsciously pushing away an immediate 'no'. Even if they just passed one another at a distance, even if it was just a glimpse, just a hint of similarity... something to go off of, other than circling the pack's territory, basically still just waiting for Archer to come to them.