Chapter Thirty-Seven
Erik had noticed an important thing since returning to Earth.
He had become bound by specific habits. It might have been an attempt to recover some of the structure of his military life. Ironically, it wasn’t that his Army life had been predictable. Since he had been sent to new places so often, the idea of having a favorite haunt seemed pointless.
Neo SoCal had a larger population than most colonies in the UTC. He could go to a different bar or restaurant for every meal for the rest of his life and never have to return to the same place.
That made tonight’s adventure to a bar far away from either his home or the station all the more notable.
His head swam with a light buzz. He wanted to be somewhere no one knew him, and he’d even gone to the trouble of transferri
