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I shut my eyes and uttered a dozen different prayers to any god that would hear them.
“Stabilization in progress,” a serene robotic voice informed me.
Stabilization?!
Stabilization!?
If you callthisstabilization, you can shove it up your ass!
The capsule kept quaking, resonating with the force of the plummet.
I tried to focus on my breathing and distance myself from the tempest outside.
Memories of home, my snug bed, and the novel I’d been engrossed in — the very last things I remembered before waking up in this place — provided only minor solace.
All my problems and issues I’d had in what now felt like a past life shrunk to the size of raisins.
They were nothing.
Nothingcompared to this.
Another painful jolt snapped me back to my reality.
I managed to force my eyelids open into tiny slits and peer through them.
And I wished I hadn’t.
A deafening roar indicated my entry into the planet’s atmosphere.
The friction turned the exterior of my capsule a bright, scorching red but I could still see through the bottom of it, like an enormous bloodshot eye.
I thought the capsule might disintegrate at any second.
Swollen and huge like the fingers of God, were the broad leaves of a huge jungle that stretched as far as my eyes could see.
I realized, with dread, I was heading straight for it.
Above it was the vastness of the cosmos, speckled with far-off stars.
I braced for impact.
Suddenly, my capsule shunted hard, snapping me forward and shoving me to the floor.
Thrustors engaged, strong enough to slow my descent, but not to stop it.
I was going to crash.
And crashhard.
Would I make it?
Who or what awaited below?
Would there be others, or would I be an anomaly on this world?
The descent didn’t let up.
Vast forests, tall mountains, and serpentine rivers raced towards me.
