While Eva was still unconscious, Austin had been doing some research into ways that he could help Eva in the event that she really lost her hearing. This was how he found out about a small community that started teaching something called sign language. It took two weeks for Austin to get someone he could trust from the community to be a live in tutor since they were from a faraway town. In the meantime, Eva pretended to practice lip reading and improved quickly. Eventually, the only difference from the past was that people would now have to make sure that she was looking at them before they spoke.
By the time the tutor arrived, Eva has largely recovered and was well enough to resume her exercises. Her wounds left pretty bad scars all over her body and scarred slightly more than half of her face. If she was already unattractive before, it was made even worse now.