[Loyalty over everything, honestly a distant but closer second - just because he can see a person's brain light up from telling a lie (because it takes so much more brain to lie than be honest) doesn't mean he knows what the lie is. So it makes him wary.]

I looked worse a few weeks ago.

[Except for when he's sipping his coffee, he's completely still.]

My meter for what that means is off, I'm afraid. I've mostly lived my life in boarding schools, military bases, or government quarters.