I’m not saying Jon would exactly vote for this option: he would actually just want to ask the Thessyx. But if it’s between these 3 things without the Thessyx’s own input, he wouldn’t go for #2, because it was pretty clearly trying to leave its people, and it seems like taking it back to them would be undoing the progress of its journey.

Elderly Northerners, in bad winters, sometimes go “hunting” (with the intention of dying in the snow so they won’t be a burden on their clan). He’d assume this is something similar.