I watch as Chuck unloads the canoe from the truck, unable to help with the unwieldy craft. He shows me where I'll be sitting in the canoe and we begin... to load and stow our gear from the truck into the canoe."What's in the drybags, Chuck?" Mainly things we might need. A first aid kit, towels, clothing, overnight stuff in case we have a mishap, a limb saw." A limb saw?" You never know when we might need to amputate."I must have looked horrified, because he laughed and said, "Sometimes trees fall. " She has had another problem, Stacy. A few times, while drinking, she confessed her true feelings about you. She loves you because you're her daughter, of course, but she's also attracted to you in a physical way." I can easily help her solve that problem if she'll let me, Dad. You don't seem to feel so badly about having sex with roe. Maybe the same will be true of Mom once she gives it a try."They got out of the car without exchanging another word. Stacy walked around and took her father's. You wouldn't want me to bruise your pretty face, would you?" No, what are you going to do to me?"He straightened a little as if lecturing a class as he said, "I generally torture women like you. The way you squirm is pleasing. I think I'll do that again."She didn't quite believe that she was simply accepting his word. He was going to torture her. And she wasn't fighting him. The words had such an oddly soothing effect on her.She winced with pain as he grabbed one wrist and pulled her across the. She had felt somewhat reassuredwhen she had spotted bees playing amongst some dandelion-like flowers.Even if the bees were blue where they should have been yellow. But thelittle familiarities like that helped make her feel less like she wasintruding upon some alien world. It also had a medieval level oftechnology as far as she could tell.Well, apart from the airships. She didn't know yet what otherenhancements to daily life magic had given this place but giant flyingships like something.