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Orel has a strange endurance to pain. He's so used to being disciplined by his father and beat up by other kids, not to mention he's been shot to the point that yes it obviously hurts him and he feels pain but he just smiles through it and bares it. He was taught not to be too loud when in pain else he'd upset his little brother and mother if he screamed the house down, he was taught it would be an inconvenience to others to let them know he was in pain, he was taught that he deserved it. ' Pain is natures spankings. It just means you learnt your lesson twice as hard. '

And of course before the hunting trip he actually saw being disciplined as father and son bonding since it was the only attention he got from his father.

It's part of the reason he doesn't ask his friends to wait for him when his leg is giving him trouble, he just tries to get on with life without mentioning the leg and he certainly doesn't use a walking aid around his father who probably gets angry and accuses him of ' laying it on thick ' 'to make' him ' feel guilty'