Oh god. Mona could feel the warmness in her cheeks and she lifted her teacup to take a deep breath, because maybe she could pretend it was the warm tea effecting her. "Heh," she managed eventually. "Thanks."
Mona took a sip and smiled at him. "Well, I like always liked cinnamon black tea," Mona explained, "but I starting experimenting to see if I could get something with a slightly different twist to it while not making it uncomfortably hot. So I began with editing the base tea and- Uh," she paused, realising that although she was delighted to talk about tea all day and that this tea in particular had been quite interesting to produce, this wasn't going to be interesting to anyone but her. "You probably don't wanna hear all that. I just thought it would taste good, I guess."