Medea and the Valley of Death

Grace's involvement with Medea followed her Mission to Tangea. It was Grace's first meeting with Faith.

Apsley informed Grace that she had been promoted to the rank of 42 and gave her a mission to deliver suppressants to Medea and hunt down an awakened being. Coming across a destroyed town with Eliah, Grace encountered Medea and followed her on a hunt. Medea used her as bait for the hunt and forced her to fight with the being, Faith, as a distraction since she had been unable to sneak up on her in days past. Faith inflicted heavy wounds on Grace and was about to kill her when she saw Grace's medallion and remembered Blanc, halting her assault. Medea chopped Faith's legs off and forced her to eat a yoki suppressant, knocking her out. When Grace tried to finish Faith off, Medea knocked her out saying it wasn't good sport. Grace tried to escape when she awoke but Medea cut and harassed her in the upper levels of her Valley of Death and threw her back down to a lower level into a stream. Faith rescued Grace and demanded answers while Grace healed and Grace tried to be reasonable with her, sheathing her sword and talking about a way to escape. Faith openly announced her intention to use Grace as bait to escape but Grace came up with the idea to use Gilas' poison to poison Medea's suppressants and paralyzed her. She fought against Gilas, jumping into his mouth and killed him, coating her own yoki suppressants with his saliva. She then pretended to be unaware and walked near Medea's hunting grounds, stalked by Medea. When Medea ran in for a kill, Faith surprised Medea, attacking her and gave Grace the opportunity to take Medea's suppressants. Medea, desperate for her suppressants, ran after her and took Grace's poisoned suppressants instead, overdosing on them, allowing the paralyzing poison to leave her incapacitated for 12 hours. During this time, both Faith and Grace ran. They separated at the destroyed town, Grace going to Eliah and Faith running in a separate direction. However, Medea awoke and chased them down, severely wounding Faith and attacking Grace for her resemblance to Blanc. Grace was able to defeat her and after Medea had said her regrets and showed her sickly form, Grace mercy-killed her. Faith was amazed at Grace's kill and her sincerity while talking to an awakened like herself. Faith was about to leave when Grace was reunited with Eliah. Terrified of Eliah, Faith tried to say she was Grace's friend when Eliah inquired and Grace said she was after realizing that Faith was at least somewhat human from their brief time together, allowing Faith to come along thinking that she was protecting others from an awakened by forcing it to not eat humans.