Oh dammit, was Mona about to start crying again? People needed to stop being so nice to her! And even though Mona was not a hugger as a rule, it really was nice to be shown such affection right now, after someone had been so rough with her instead.
When she drew back to look up at Ren her eyes were not teary (what a minimal bar for success right now) and she gave him another lopsided sort of smile. "I'm okay," she promised him, because that was surely the next question he would ask and she was trying to cut everyone off on that. She wanted to scratch at her healing cheek, but was trying not to touch it at all.
"Seems like everyone knows about it by now. What did you hear?"