Gandalf shook his head and smoked his pipe. "Dwarfs...I am starting to prefer Hobbits..." Bilbo helped the others build a fire and started cooking a stew in the pot. 

The pair started out of the village, the young man looking at his companion and said "Is it wise to travel in the dark?" The hooded figure nodded and said "We need to travel quickly...and hopefully no one is foolish to travel the plains at this time..." The young man nodded and pulled up onto his horse, the other doing the same. They took off riding towards the gate, not knowing that their hopes were far from coming true.