[ Kaeya... it's still painful to think about him. Thoma had been front row and center at his fight against Estinien and had seen the carnage up close. Still remembers the smell of blood in the air and the way Kaeya had disintegrated.

His head shakes from side to side stubbornly. ]

I can fight if I have to, but I don't want to lose the few pieces of home I have here.

[ He doesn't know when he'll get to go home again, but he doesn't want to sever all ties to Teyvat. It's who he is and where his family lives. Where the Kamisatos are waiting for him. ]

Not every fight has to be to the death, and there must be some better way to resolve our differences.

[ Though he already fears that he may have to end a few lives to end the conflict for good. ]