@elmentalwish asked: “Wait! Please— I’m sorry, just— wait.” ei to thoma runs // soft sentence starters
THEIR WORDS CAUSE THOMA TO STOP IN HIS TRACKS, slowing and turning back towards them with an undeniable sense of surprise woven into his expression. The conversation had been... civil— sort of nice! But nothing more... aside from the tinge of awkwardness of past events left unsaid. It’s... strange, to see their archon walking around so casually, even Thoma finds it difficult to get used to at first. But maybe that’s because the sight of them is yet to go without a sudden rise of panic buried deep into him, left from the moment he almost lost his vision and all his livelihood with it.
Thoma may not hold resentment towards them ( extending his courtesy towards their perspective and all, even when he couldn’t agree— plus, they’ve put an end to the decrees now ), but... he can’t help the strange feeling either. Knowing he had almost lost all of his aspirations, faced a fate worse than death itself, to their hand... it still reappears in his nightmares. How could he so easily let go?
He tenses, though faces them nonetheless, the apology stealing any words he could have said for a few moments... he wasn’t planning on asking that of them. But, even when he thought he didn’t need one... it seems to lift a weight from his shoulders already. “Oh— ah, uh... no need to worry! I mean, I’m not leaving.” Now he isn’t, holding his hands in front of his chest as if to get that point across. “But really, if... you mean what I think you might, there’s... nothing you need to apologize for. Things have changed, and I care the most about the wellbeing of everyone in Inazuma— which has gotten so much better already! I’m not angry about it, it’s... in the past.” A pause; he’s always been bad at accepting apologies... “But... thank you. I mean that, too.”