Fire Bird Northern Hambridge Goblin Cave Hunting

You think you could be missing something here, confused on why the deer tracks and the foot prints separate. You tell the others to keep looking for clues, you go to look at the foot prints after a bit and notice that there are very soft bare foot prints of smaller feet near the leather boot prints, and seeming like a few. You immediately know something is wrong. You yell a warning to your remaining group mates. You now know that there could be what he suspected goblins nearby, and that they have potentially done something to Barth. Do you want to chase after Barth or do you want to form a defense position and follow his tracks?