"I can't say that I was," Chiron confirms with a little bit of lightness. "I like to think that those who came after me were."

Chiron's delicate fingers are unaware of the concentration and differentiation between pain. They're too busy zeroing in on their own work, meaning that any part of Archer that could respond to an attack is also distracted by this work.

"That'll be good to know for the future in case of something more severe." There are questions to ask on that topic, such as what happens when vital organs are injured, but those questions are hardly a priority. "I'm about one third of the way through. The next tendons are the smaller ones."