He nodded to himself, before starting to do some old fashioned police work, looking for 'Clues.' Which would at least point him in the direction that SOMEONE, or THING, wanted him to think had happened. He did pause long enough to wave the sphinxes in, before heading to check the inn first. From there, he would check out the other buildings, working outwards from the inn while the sphinxes fortified it, mostly because he was paranoid. Which was a nice state of mind for him, meant he might live longer.