Chapter 22 – New Assignments
A few days later, Jerry was sober and back in space. His next war patrol would soon begin. The shore leave had helped a lot, and he was ready to move forward. Time to get back in the fight.
It had been six days since the Battle of Skybridge 2, and he was where he belonged: aboard a proper Agrarian warship, not a Paragon wreck. And it wasn't just any warship, either, but a battlecruiser, the A.C.S. Promontory itself. The vessel he served on shouldn't have mattered, but he'd be lying to himself if he said he didn't feel an ego boost. Battlecruisers were status symbols.
The officers' quarters were particularly nice, definitely better than Raymond Shepherd's. He'd miss the old destroyer and the crew, but that was military life. The only constant was change. The
