She doesn't have any particular reason to like Topher, but the news that he was out of sorts in a dream makes for a large tally in favor of rift trickery. "Then it must have been some kind of illusion or something," she says firmly. "I've met Topher in the dreams before, and he can change how he looks and sounds a-purpose." And he wouldn't have chosen to come across as a madman, surely.