Knowing he should have his mate with him to temper his anger with the elves he turned to retrieve bilbo, after showering bilbo dressed and went to find his mate knowing he had to help convince him to speak to lord elrond, opening the door he almost walked headlong into his mate who was just about to come into the room.
Smiling at each other, with balin and Gandalf smirking at them, they all walked to elrond's study, "you know Thorin, you could get him to read the map, but pretend that the quest we are on is to get you and I your unclaimed mate to a meeting of the dwarrow leaders your kin, in the iron hills" bilbo said (in khuzdul).
Shock was written across both Thorin and balin's faces, the fact that bilbo knew their language they knew but the fact that he could come up with a diplomatic excuse for the quest was astounding "of course balin could present the map as though it's for academic purposes, such as a complete archive of historic documents, in case of hidden texts symbols and cyphers" continued bilbo, shocking Gandalf along with the other two.
Thinking about all bilbo had said balin piped up "that is brilliant bilbo, I never would have thought of that, it's perfect in its simplicity" Thorin raised an eyebrow at Dwalin who had been following the group and muttered "you call that simple" Bofur who was next to Dwalin snorted then turned and walked back to the others dragging Dwalin along with him.
After some thought they decided this was best and walked the rest of the way to elrond's study, Gandalf having realise he shouldn't be too shocked talked quietly in sindarin with bilbo, "is there anything I should know?" "Yes, souron lives, his ring endured, he has summoned the nine, the white council is here and you are carrying the sword of angmar the one Radagast gave you the necromancer is souron" "are you sure" "Gandalf, until we can retrieve the ring we must do as we have, but we also must prepare, I must also tell you to beware of saruman, he is not as good as he seems" "what" Gandalf snapped with a fearful look on his face.
"Did you not wonder why none of you have heard from alatar and pollando since they were on a quest with saruman, three went to mordor, but only one came back" "what your suggesting is not possible, the rest of us would know" the fear still at the fore in Gandalf's eyes and voice, "would you, they disappeared over a century ago, they were in the east before that, you had not seen each other in a long time, believe me Olorin they are with the valar, they were with eru when he sent me back, I'm sorry my friend but they died" Gandalf stood rigid shocked at the use of his true name, taking in all he heard.
Fear and grief hit Gandalf's heart he stood in the back as the dwarrows explained the need of elrond's abilities soon after the translation elrond took Gandalf aside to meet with the white council, but first to see what had upset his friend so.