Fragment 2

After what must have been a day or so, the firery haze around the ship started to fade away. When it had finally regained it's own dark brownish color, it started to move downward to the ground. Some of the enormous thrusterholes had allready been closed, others were still emitting a faint blue glow, which made the air shudder like a slightly disturbed surface of water.
The ship started to loose height and after a minute or two it touched the black-burned tops of what was left from the highest trees. But maybe one should not be too quick with adapting earthly words and concepts to the planets environment. Let's say, that the plant-considered beings - the ones that had escaped the all-swallowing fires of the enormous machine - looked very much like trees. They consisted of light brown stems with little tranches and furrows im them, much like bark. The stems split up into many branches that became smaller twigs. They also had leaves, which were mostly orange. Some of them were a bit more reddish or yellowish than others. Some others combined many varieties of red, orange and yellow. Like autumn leaves they shimmered in the bright shining sun.
No one on board heard the rustling sounds made by the ship, when it descended to its landing, bending and snapping the scorched plant-alikes. The sounds of their bending stems sounded like rusty doors that slowly opened. It was followed by a loud cracking of the stems that broke in two, which must have been from wood.
Then long foot-like pillars moved, distached and disentangled themselves from underneath the ship to support it's landing. They touched the ground with a thump and sank deep into the earth, while the last working thrusters were turned of one after the other, until the ship came to a standstill. Finally the ship was landed. Some hatches cracked and shut, some last branches cracked. And then everything turned into an utter silence.