Jayne took a deep breath as the crossed the new planet's atmosphere, clocking all the readouts for oxygen and gravity on the planet again. Less gravity than they were used to. More oxygen than they were used to.
Still, it was a goldilocks planet, but more importantly, the local inhabitants were willing to take pity on them.
As the ship hit a patch of turbulence and they dodged some space debris, Jayne looked over to her co-pilot and said into her headset, "Landing isn't going to be easy." Violet knew that, but it made Jayne feel better to say it aloud. They'd talked this over many times after receiving the response to their distress beacon. Even if they couldn't get the ship off the ground again, they had been running out of options, and the locals seemed friendly enough--at least, once they had all figured out how to communicate.
"Landing gear prepared. I've marked a landing zone on the radar that will cause the least amount of damage to the local flora and fauna," Periphery said. Jayne nodded to the AI speaking inside her helmet, not having the time or attention to wonder if Periphery knew what a nod meant or even how to look for one.
"The engine will hold for now!" Daniel said through their headsets from deep in the belly of their ship's innards, patching up what he could while they were coming in hot, "but let's make it snappy!"
Jayne smirked and tossed Violet a look--if Daniel thought the landing needed to be snappy, they were probably in rough shape.
"Just breathe, yeah?" Jayne told Violet, "We've got this."
((OOC: Hey, Molly! "OOC" stands for "out of character" and is a way for us (the authors) to communicate information to each other that's not necessarily directly in the story (usually also using the double parentheses as well). Feel free to make these notes at the beginning or end of your posts as feels relevant. You are welcome to write your characters responding to what has already happened and continue the story however makes sense, just passing the story back when you think it makes sense for my characters to respond. I feel like I want to know where Henry and Sam are at in this scene if that sounds fun. Thanks for doing this with me! No time pressure on responding--let's just keep it fun! Sending loveeeeeeeeee!))