TOIRIEN PUSHED OPEN the door to the bridge and staggered as she burst into the room. The ship was shaking again.
“I thought of something,” she shouted over the grinding noise. Haggardy, Harrington and Lingiari were all staring at her after her sudden entrance. “I should have said it before, but...I...I couldn’t find any damage to the engines when I scanned them. I thought I just didn’t understand what I was looking at. But I’ve just realized...we haven’t even tried to start the engines since we crashed. What if they aren’t that badly damaged? What if they just shut down because of the crash-landing? We could try to start them up and see what happens.”
“Is this correct?” Haggardy asked Jas and Lingiari, raising his voice. “You didn’t even try to lift off the planet?”
The vibrations stopp
