Brent raised his eyebrows when a girl about his age (Daisy) just walked up to the food table and owned a turkey leg like a boss. "Food looks good, huh?" Brent asked, not really expecting an answer to that. It was just one of those awkward conversation starters someone used when they didn't really know the other person. "I'm Brent, by the way."

He thought he was doing good starting up random conversation with a girl, when the talk turned to the portal and all the weird stuff going on around the school. He took one more bite of his food then turned around to face the others. So he had come here to have some fun and forget the portal for a moment, but who could miss the current conversation going on?

He turned toward Skylar when she got all Gryffindor on them and suggested they just hop on up in the portal and attack whatever was within. He'd heard people refer to it as a monster, and he'd even been in that portal once upon a time. "...but how do we know there's just one of them in there? What if they gang up on us, too?" he asked. What was it with this school and monsters in the wall? Didn't they just clear the walls of some beast a hundred years ago or something? Was it back or something?

...also, he should step away from the wall now. He was good with the center of the room, bouncey floor and all.