( hmmm, a valid differentiation, and he gives the question due consideration before answering. )

Whichever you feel better equipped to answer.

( both would be informative for someone like him, who knows so little about this resort outside of the barebones he's already been told. and while he certainly can - and plans to - use his own senses to form deductions, there's never any harm in probing information from those more intimately involved with a case or place.

additional witness testimony, as it were.

but there is another matter he's curious on, one that promps his brows to crinkle in clear puzzlement. )

But, and I beg your pardon, I'm afraid I don't see the irony in this situation.

( is there something funny about him being a judge..... )