[sdgkjsdahl;'fds he's only embarrassed he's been practicing so much without supervision okay?!! sdlkjgh very very sheepish now and kinda looking away, raising his hands in a placating gesture]

Hey, hey, I've just been... with all those monsters I had to fight somehow, so I sorta had a lot of forced practice and maybe the bow string hit my arm sometimes! [a lot of times. but it's not like he felt any pain, so he never really stopped to fix it.]