"Right. Still downplaying it." He couldn't help but say that - honesty was kind of addictive, once he'd gotten a taste for it.

"No, it's nothing like that." He moved to assure, with every ounce of charisma he knew how to muster (which, when he wasn't being a doucherocket, was considerable), "It's just, I kind of feel better this way. --You're easy to talk to. I like it."