@FlyingHorse717 Cheribim's been a soldier most of his life until he got his legs blown off from an orbital strike, rendering him as a slightly less effective soldier. Thus, he was reassigned to be security detail for a laboratory while also picking up on a few skills from the scientists.
As far as the chapter being "all over the place" it basically means I have a list of events that I want to happen but I don't know what order to put them in. Hence, the list is "all over the place" if that makes sense. This chapter, along with other previous chapters, pose unique challenges that I could never foresee. I thought the One Small Favor chapter was going to be the hardest, but it was only the hardest in one aspect. While all future chapters will be much shorter and more concise, that presents a unique problem of its own: ensuring that the story is being well told with fewer words and eliminating scenes that don't really provide a significant contribution to the overall story. I'm still very pleased with how the last chapter (now split into 5 separate chapters) turned out, but a common complaint was how long it was. The rest of the chapters going forward shouldn't drag on nearly as long