Declan did not want to be that annoying person who overheard a conversation. Except he was that person. He was nodding and humming along to what Althea was telling her but his eyes kept drifting back to the familiar girl and the professor. He really should do something about not remembering names. He took the plate of chicken Althea offered. Declan made some kind of approving noise about chicken and paired it up with a wide eye look of starvation before he put the plate down on the table almost instantly.

"Yes, light does have a tendency to shine bright at the most inoportune times," He said quickly to Althea between her speaking and went back to humming and nodding. Hunter? Declan was almost certain that was not his name. "Just vanished? No kicking or screaming? No being dragged by another entity? Just a bright light and poof he was gone?" There had to be a hint in there somewhere. How did people vanish in light? Did he evaporate? Declan switched his gaze to where the familiar girl had indicated her friend had been. He didn't see a pile of dust, shoes left behind or anything. How strange! Declan barely heard the 'date' comment and just nodded along to Althea. He heard condolences somewhere in there so surely his sister was being some brand of sympathetic here.

"May I...say something?" Declan inquired shyly raising up his hand instinctively. He glanced sideways at his raised hand and brought it back down awkwardly. He wasn't inside a classroom. Why did he do that for? "I've read that mirrors can be used to take glances of other realms, which, I mean, aren't this one where we are standing right now. Of course it's usually a one way communication only..." It was a pointless idea and he cleared his throat as he felt his face heat up. "It was just a thought."

He wished he had access to a large mirror--one that wasn't the dirty ones in the boys' lavatory.

"Sorry that I'm not more helpful," he tacked on and averted his gaze. "If you need help looking, I can help." Declan pretty much spent his nights sneaking around anyway. He was familiar with dirty corners of the castle.