"It did at first." He's frank with her. They both know much about pain. Their masters had used it often to motivate and punish them. Maul would like to think he's inoculated to it by now, but that would be a lie.

"Now it has lessened." He'd spent a month with all of his bones aching and barely able to eat. Surprisingly, the eyes hadn't had much residual pain for all that it had been one of the worst things that had ever happened to him at the time. Once they were gone, the nerve endings simply were too damaged to do much else.