If it is something he can offer in this unsettling time, then the voice he had as the last in the line of Lucis was something he was willing to use. He would wait until he was alone and not surrounded by practical strangers to focus on everything else. Like then, there was no other choice. He couldn't think about what would be waiting for him at home, where he needed to be. Only what they need him to be here. Ignis, Prompto, and Cindy.

The rest could wait. Had to. Even as he let himself be distracted by this new acquaintance's insight. It too was spoken with authority, one he could have easily mistaken for the Marshal's were Shiro older.

"And here I thought we agreed having 'any bias to certain conclusions' would 'slow us down.'" Noctis pointed out with a bit of dry humor, but that didn't necessarily mean he ignored the point. Quite the opposite, in fact.