"Indeed." Thorin grunted, the dwarf prince looking less than impressed as he turned away from them abruptly. But he said no more on the matter and it seemed as if this was as close to a forgiveness that they would get out of Thorin.

"It's alright Bilbo." Bofur spoke soothingly to the hobbit. "You were wounded by that strange creature." he looked up questioningly at Serena. She had called it by a name but he couldn't remember what the word was that she had used. "But this lady here helped you, you're going to be okay. You were very brave."

Suddenly, from further up ahead there came a shout in Dwalin's voice back to the group. 
"I cannot see where the pathway leads, Thorin! Do we follow it or no?!"
"Follow it of course!" Thorin bellowed back, seeing no other option. He'd rather follow an unknown path than go back where they had come and face the Elves. Little did the dwarf know that the path would lead them right to Rivendell, the Hidden Valley. The very place he did not want to go, which Gandalf had conveniently not told him of.