“Wasn’t trying to that time!” they laugh, waiting for the inevitable chastising to come from Hornfels.

Hornfels delivers their typical spiel about being more careful, and Feldspar pretends to listen while they’re already diving back through the clouds to look closer at those islands. They wonder if they can land on one of them…

Later, much later, when they’ve found a place to make a temporary camp and collect their rock samples and whatnot, they pick up the radio.

“Feldspar to Kent?”