Tetula surfaces into consciousness at a time that she doesn't realize is dawn. Or she surfaces into something that feels more like consciousness-- for one thing, she's explicitly considering the hypothesis that she might be asleep-- but her dream boyfriend is there, so she's obviously still asleep. 

Normally, her dream boyfriend has a physical form, with brown hair and a roguish smile, which is next to her, if not inside her. Not this time. She has a sense of-- something-- and it isn't physical, it's out there but it's mental somehow, a Presence that she doesn't know how to name. But it's obviously her dream boyfriend. She knows this the same way she'd recognize the face of her mother or a well-cast spell scaffold. 

Her dream boyfriend loves her and wants her to be happy and joyful and strong and free.