Boy's story part VI...

Jonah spun and spun, quickly at first, towards the large planet, but gradually he slowed and neared its orbit. The red star was huge and bright on his right, pulsing slowly, its colors blending and swirling from ruby to maroon to crimson and blood red. His bed shuddered for a moment and made one last rotation before the sight of the red star. Jonah worried that it was no longer the force of Tristan and Madeline that moved him as he watched the frightening star.
He was still floating towards the planet however, and that reassured him. He floated closer until he was caught in its orbit. The planet’s gravity was strong and pulled Jonah’s bed through its atmosphere. He thought for a moment that maybe he wouldn’t land where they said he would and what would he do then?
Jonah forced these thoughts out of his head and watched as he sailed through the planet’s cloudy atmosphere. It was strangely dark and he passed through dense smoky clouds that he thought should make him cough until he remembered that he no longer needed to breathe.
After a minute or two he broke through the clouds and the vast landscape of Jude’s planet was laid out before him. It was spotted with tall mountains of red rock surrounded by orange-leafed trees and plains of yellow grass. He watched and saw that he was indeed headed for a clearing near the shore of a huge black sea. He wondered what color the water was during the day, if it every turned to day. The sea seemed to cover half the planet as Jonah rushed to a landing.
The shore and the land grew faster and faster before Jonah’s eyes until, finally, his bed thumped to a somewhat gentle stop in the middle of one of the yellow grass fields. He looked around him, making sure he knew which direction the shore lay. The stars had told him to find the shore. He decided that it was definitely to his right and, mustering his courage, Jonah pulled aside his blankets and slid barefoot off of his bed…