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Ombra doesn't actually see the bruises without her cyber glasses, but she knows because Senanca informed her about this whole incident in the meantime.

On a sidenote, I read that moles aren't entire blind but that they can still see the difference between light and dark. Which makes sense since they need to know whether they're underground or above where things are more dangerous.

I learned there are different kinds of blindness among blind people too. Years ago, I met this blind girl at school and carefully asked if I could ask questions about her blindness (as I'm naturally curious). She was happy to answer any. So I asked whether she was born blind or through accident, and whether she sees only black or is still able to see the difference between light and dark. She told me she was born blind, can still see the difference between light and dark, and when things get very close to her, she sees them as very blurry, dark silhouettes.

So I'm gonna use that kind of blindness for Ombra here too, where she is extremely shortsighted, living in a dark, blurry world. The cyber glasses can make her see shapes and colors more clearly. But this can overstimulate her mole brain after a while since it is simply not used to receiving this much visual information at once (this is my pseudo science anyway).

That and, being only recently invented, the cyber glasses still aren't providing HD/4K vision yet either, things still look a little pixel-y through them, below average vision quality. Technology-folks are working on improving its vision to make it a less exhausting, more pleasing experience. But this first model is still much better than nothing for blind people to have in the meantime.

I don't know, I like keeping the sci-fi level for this story nice and humble.

I believe that Sencanca bought these expensive cyber glasses for Ombra as a business gift.