His expression clouds. He doesn't want to talk about what he's doing here. It's all lies, half-truths. He's gotten his actual military history from BB-8 by now--he knows why being in the Navy seemed familiar, why it was so easy to believe for those moments with Caroline that he'd been in a war somewhere, that he'd been discharged.

"I don't remember much," he says, which is at least true. "Some big accident. I'm told I'm new here anyway--visited before, never stayed. Former Navy."

There. Truth. He forces a smile when he looks at BB-8. "And yeah, he's always that cute."