~Days earlier. End of the first arc~
Elowen had barely finished kissing Grey when his body went limp in her arms.
For several seconds she only stared at him, completely frozen by the realization that she had somehow managed to knock the idiot unconscious with a kiss, but everything around them was already moving too quickly for embarrassment to last. Mauve rushed over, Brad helped lower Grey to the ground, and within minutes the entire battlefield had shifted from celebration to crisis management as everyone realized that Grey wasn't waking up anytime soon.
The catacomb formation still needed to be completed, and Grey was the only person with enough understanding of the Mech Soul to finish the process properly. Mauve solved that problem in the most practical way available to her, taking control of his unconscious body and guiding his hands through the final steps while everyone else protected them.
