Stranded

"We sit here stranded, though we're all doin' our best to deny it."

--Bob Dylan (opening quote)

"..without a Respectable Navy, Alas America!"

--John Paul Jones (ending quote)

Stranded is a chapter in When the Cold Breeze Blows Away. In this chapter, a lot of guests who attended the How I Can Help Make the World Great ceremony (kids and grownups) are falling asleep in a boiler room of the OFS Kestrel III like stranded passengers in a seaport or in an airport due to cancelled flights or voyages.

At the middle of the night (and while Seryozha Viktrovich Nikanor left the carrier for an emergency conference in Bright Hill, Oured, Osea), they began to discuss on what did they dream about last night.

Meanwhile, the Razgriz Squadron is sinking rogue Grand Alliance, Beleninsk Pact and New Central Powers squadrons and fleets, including Coalition of the Red Star fleets and squadrons, that are bound to destroy the Kestrel III-loyal squadrons and fleets from these three alliances.