Talk:Dryston - Rescue Mission

I noticed that Dryston was not listed as a possible candidate for the Companions quest, Rescue Mission. Unfortunately for me, that is precisely who I was sent to retrieve from Ilinalta's Deep. I'm not sure if I ever came across this character in my game before but I do believe he is most certainly dead. Or was, by the time I was sent to retrieve him. (Currently lvl 57 - I never got around to doing many of the Companions quests until now.) The quest arrow led me to an empty cell and my bad habit of consolidating my saves left me without the option of going back to a time before I accepted the quest from Vilkas.

Vilkas made the quest sound as if it would be time sensitive, so I've been running around doing other quests in the meantime in hopes I'd get a failed notification but thus far, I've had no luck. Is this going to end up as yet another broken quest in my log? Or is there a way (for the 360) to have it removed or marked as failed?