But again, character motivation is shot in the foot in your *interpretation* too. You’d have Lando travel who knows how far just to find them in the nick of time, and then wander away after six lines of exposition rather than doing anything to actually help them on their quest? (More than just something that could be put in an email.)
EDIT: Put it this way, your focus is on handwaving something that may-or-may-not have happened over the past twenty years. I don’t care about that. Let’s focus on the story now, and what the characters are doing now. What works best for the story we’re actually trying to tell?