Tarinda tumbles through hard vacuum for a split second while safeties deploy around her and then she, without her safeties but with her clothes and her swords and her pocketful of candy, tumbles instead through soft air and lands on firm earth.

She wasn't expecting any of this and kips up and whirls around to get a look at the place.

Tarinda tumbles through hard vacuum for a split second while spaceship safety mechanisms deploy around her and then she, without her airbubble but with her clothes and her swords and her pocketful of candy, tumbles instead through soft air and lands on firm earth.

She wasn't expecting any of this and kips up and whirls around to get a look at the place.