Jessa was being a little harsh and Paul sent her an eyebrow raise in order to maaaaaybe tell her to stop that. Derfael clearly didn't need that right now. It wasn't helping.

He was proud of his badgers, though. First Althea, and now Kane were doing their best to comfort their younger housemate. But he approached Derf once more. Paul pulled the earmuffs off of Derf's head and tucked them under his arm. "Derf...calm down. Junia, Etta, and Henry are all in here. Simon and Abey are in another lesson at the moment," he could at least vouch for knowing where Simon was, being the Hufflepuff head of house and all. He had no clue where Abey was. But Derfael didn't need to know that.

"But they're all safe..."

Clearly, someone else was going on here??