The two ships continued deeper into the asteroid belt after leaving the ruined pirate ambush behind, their paths cutting through lanes of broken rock and drifting ore where light came and went in long shadows, and from that point on, almost every pirate ship unlucky enough to cross Rhoswen's path ended the same way.
She threw herself into the work with almost suspicious enthusiasm.
Part of it was because this was still her first real outing as a shipgirl, and part of it was because she knew she had fumbled the start of her first battle by letting excitement outrun judgment, so now she was trying to win back the good impression she thought she had damaged, which made her even more active than before.
Unfortunately for the pirates, her chosen method of "working hard" was still mostly to ram things.
