"No, you have many friends who wish to fight the Thing with you." He'd prefer it if a couple of them -- Cricket in particular -- not put them in harm's way, but Prometheus will just have to work that much harder to make sure their plan of attack doesn't leave any of them vulnerable.

"The storm must give them enough of an advantage that they don't feel a need to explain themselves." That's... a good strategy, actually. Why reveal your intentions and expose a potential weakness? "But at least we know now that they aren't willing to negotiate, so we don't have to hold our fire or waste our breath."

As for the Thing, Prometheus shakes his head a bit. "It turns its prey's cells into versions of itself, yes? Perhaps it simply sees humans as organic material to harvest, and thus beneath it. There were many monsters like that on Earth. Creatures who could converse with humans but found them unworthy, for whatever reason."