Meeting with Cassandra

Grace met Cassandra after she left Alice's tea party.

Grace was sent on a mission by Apsley to rescue a low ranked warrior in Alvenheim which was to be followed by a purge of the awakened being which had kidnapped her. She was accompanied by Victoria, Gloria, and Faith. She arrived in Alvenheim and found Cassandra who thought she was a ghost. After realizing she was real, Cassandra talked with her for hours about how the world was outside Alveinhim since she had never left it to prevent scaring lesser awakened, informing her that the claymore in her care had left days earlier, presumably to the vanguards. Happy that Grace wasn't afraid of her and had attracted friends, Cassandra was tempted to use Roxanne's Love and Hate ability to steal Grace's "ability" to make friends, thinking it was a similar technique to Love and Hate. However Faith was quick to stop her and in her paranoia of abyssal ones and jealousy of having to share Grace's attention, tried to tell Cassandra off; However, Cassandra was determined to stay with Grace whom she had made a bond with after realizing they shared a mutual lonliness. Roxanne temporarily took over Cassandra's body and stirred up Faith's emotions, making her question what Grace meant to her. Meanwhile, Gloria and Victoria became close friends as Victoria would talk with her daily to find out more about her, partially from guilt of solidifying her bloodthirsty alternate persona, Official. They found out each other's preferences and were content to stay with each other even though Gloria suspected Victoria was an awakened. Upon realizing the hunting part was coming and would be destroyed by Cassandra, Gloria came up with a plan to have them kill a decoy corrupt gut worm in place of Cassandra. However, as they executed the plan, Vega and Vanity interfered using the apex, trying to intercept the hunting party themselves. The apex bandits under Gouda drank their Vanguard tears and became feeders. Cassandra killed 1/2 with her aura and Faith killed the other 1/2. Vega sent 10 yoma  with vanguard tears to overwhelm the hunting party but Victoria manipulated her corrupt gut worm into killing the yoma. Vega sent hercorrupt vultures against Faith but Faith dispatched them easily, prompting Vega to ask her to join the vanguards, an offer Faith refused. Vega pieced together what was happening and why Faith was hindering her mission, coming to the conclusion that Grace could control awakened beings and was extremely dangerous. Meanwhile, Vanity brought Cassandra to an isolated location and fought her, inadvertently sealing her fate as Cassandra revealed her abyssal form in the absence of onlookers and bit Vanity in half. Vanity flew back to Vega and hastily retreated seeing that she was no match for Cassandra. Following the incident, the claymore hunting party returned to Staff and Cassandra joined Grace's group under Faith's constant watch.