[Sinbad instinctively covers his ears before he catches himself - though Focalor recoils in place from the cries as he joins Lucas in the negotiation - though he can sense the other teenager's ability to understand exceeds his own]

'Fight to kill, fight or be killed'. I don't think you really want that, or you'd been on us in an instant.

[He glances around the snowy debris and then at the matted fur of the firetypes]

Did something happen that makes you think you had to defend yourselves by taking the first offense, or do you mean 'have to' fight because someone or something told you to?