People worked hard to eliminate weaknesses, and given plenty of people at the school only went to physical pain-causing torture, resisting that was hardly a useless skill. But T was better than the others. Sure they could use that kind of torture (not that Zach generally did with anyone), but that was not the most effective in this case.
It involved rather little discomfort of any kind.
"She is French and has something others seem to lack," Zach began - both to be gracious to Terrence and hide his secret - "but the first thing is to be aware that, for whatever reason, she has that effect on most everyone. I saw people ahead of me practically drooling and resisting throwing themselves at her, so I had a heads up." Of course not really feeling those urges had helped his observational skills. He wasn't sure how serious T was about asking him for help on that. Zach was pretty good at it, sure, but it'd be a first for him - to teach T something.