Elias kept mostly to himself on the journey back to Dantooine.
He wasn’t upset or angry, more so worried and deep in thought. His mind played back that experience with Tar Viszla and his choice words with Thrassk. In the moment Elias hadn’t considered his fellow Jedi’s actions as too rash or violent, maybe because it was hard to really tell when facing a spirit over a being of flesh. Maybe he just wasn’t paying attention enough to see it, but regardless the look in Thrassk’s eyes after it was all said and done had been telling enough. The way he’d pulled away from Elias and lashed out verbally to Tar Viszla - it was unlike Thrassk, at least the Thrassk Elias had met before.
So it had him thinking about what it meant to fight as a Jedi. He remembered the teachings about using your lightsaber to defend, to be a guardian and not to simply attack. But there were times when the line between those two things was much more blurred, what did you do then? Was it wrong to go all out on a test presented to them, should they have found another way? What if attacking first could save more lives than simply waiting to defend? These questions and many more rattled in Elias’s brain as he pressed his head against the ship viewing glass and watched the stars slowly drift by.
Elias had now seen how violence could affect someone emotionally, he’d seen the change in Thrassk for only a moment. He then thought about the Knights of Ren, their cruelty and love of violence seemed almost second nature - was that the risk people took if they relied on violence too much, was everyone just one too many battles away from it becoming your first and only response? Sighing gently, he closed his eyes and tried to pull his mind away from such intense thoughts that he had no answers to at the moment.
Right now, all he could do was trust in his training and in the Force. That maybe the answer to Elias’s questions was something that he could figure out with time. For now, he’d just try and make sure to keep a closer eye on his friends and make sure nobody got too used to the violence of the galaxy.