"And we wouldn't want the poor bed to feel left out. But if you're sure..." Though given it seemed Troy didn't seem keen on going back to sleep after what he'd dreamed, Clara had a feeling he was quite sure on the matter and so she'd at least manage to get a few hours of sleep once their conversation wore to an end. Though given Clara and Troy and the fact they'd been known to have conversations late into the night before, that wasn't necessarily going to be anytime soon.
Throwing themselves into a life with a man they barely knew. It seemed accurate. And if Clara were being honest with herself, she knew that some of the decisions she'd made in the dreams were all just to give herself a sense of control when there was none to be had. Why else would she make him come back a day later to ask if she'd travel with him, because she 'might say yes', and how they would only travel on Wednesdays?
"Not all of them have been good." Losing her mum all over again? That had been painful. The first few though had been general life things. Growing up, university, why she wasn't travelling like she had planned to. While she had discussed them some with Troy, she never went into depth and they were hard to explain but she'd at least try.
"Well. I've only had two dreams where I've travelled with the Doctor.... the first time I met him proper, he actually weirded me out. He seemed to know me and yet I didn't know him. But he saved me." Shrugging, Clara finished her tea before turning her attention back to Troy, "Twice from being lost with the billions of people who had their souls trapped in the internets. Yet he was keen to protect me, to just sit outside the house and make sure I was okay... I felt safe with him despite what was going on."
But really, how to explain why she had a seeming faith in him?
"I just seem to be able to read him, it's in his eyes." Something Clara usually claimed was how she could read Troy or John or dad so well. A look in their eyes. Like how Troy's now had that sadness to them that John's had started to have. Like the sadness she saw in the Doctor's eyes, even as he tried to impress her and show her the world and all the wondrous things that the universe had to offer. "There's the sadness to him that you've mentioned, and yet that fuels his desire to save people. The second dream I had about him, the one with the parasitic god? He said we never run away, unless we're holding onto something precious. He was willing to sacrifice himself to save the Queen of Years and all the people who were there...."
How Clara had heard it all, everything he lost, the pain and suffering, everything he offered to the Old God so that it would leave Mary and the others alone.
"He's suffering just like everyone else..." And well, Clara was never one who could sit back and watch someone suffer, here or in the Dreams. "But that doesn't make him cruel. It's something new. Something unexpected and it's challenging, sure, but it's still..." What was what she wanted to say. How do you describe to someone who seemed to hate the Doctor and what he stood for so that they could see why so many would want to travel with him, despite the dangers.
"You feel special travelling with him. That there's something in you that you yourself didn't even know, that he makes you aware of. It's only been two adventures with him and I'm sure things will get complicated or scary, but I, she, trust him, that no matter what, he'll have my back."