Anthony frowned, at a loss for what to say. He wasn't familiar with dreams that left him anything more than shaky and out of breath or scared when he woke. Dreams that followed him into the waking world didn't happen. He looked around the room, trying to be nonchalant about it, but failing. Miserably. He wasn't teasing her, he wasn't trying to be mean or cruel. He was just checking, making sure. After what happened to Ioan, he couldn't help it. He couldn't protect his friends. And.
Anthony placed a hand on her's, on his shoulder, keeping here there, in the real world. Reality, which was sometimes not much better than the dream world that seemed to plague everyone these days. No one was safe after last year. "We wont let anyone hurt you here."
That was the best he had, really. Anthony leaned his chin on top of the hand that was covering hers. He was seriously considering putting up big glittery and flashing signs that said no monsters allowed in the Ravenclaw dorms. But monsters could take any form these days and he wasn't so sure that they weren't already there, infiltrating in silence and darkness and spreading.