Kelley and Dakota placed the canoes at the edge of the water. The river was calm, almost not even a river. The water was deep enough to canoe in, but not scarily deep; and was almost completely clear. They climbed into the canoes.

"Don't forget to put me on!" said a life jacket, in a squeaky voice. They did so. "Yay! I love canoeing!"

"Actually, didn't Susie say there was no canoeing because this is a magical camp?" asked Dakota.

"Yeah, but she also said you could do whatever you want here!" replied her life jacket, in a gruff voice. "And since this kid wants to get over his fear of canoes, he's doing it!" Kelley sighed. "It's not a fear of canoes!" Kelley & Dakota started paddling. Dakota went straight, while Kelley veered off and bumped into the shore again. "You gotta paddle on both sides!" Dakota said.

"Uhh, yeah yeah, I knew that!"

Kelley paddled, catching up with Dakota, keeping beside her. Eventually they both stopped and just let their momentum and flow of the slow river carry them. Even Dakota seemed calm, as she stopped fidgeting around, and just took in the sights. She waved at a tree, and Kelley did too. It waved back. "Hi y'all!", it said.

"You seem a lot calmer around water," Kelley said. "I don't know if it's because you like water or you just don't want to fall in."

"Well, mostly it's the former," she replied. "Water is just so calming. Even the most roughest, murkiest river is still calmer than most places on land."

"Wow, that's pretty deep..." Kelley said.

"Nah, it only looks about 3 feet or so."

"No, I meant- never mind, let's just enjoy this before some sort of wacky hijinks happen."

Dakota tilted her head. "Why do you think that's gonna happen?"

"Probably because of that," her life vest said. She looked up and saw Susie floating by on a broom, reading a book, not even paying attention to the both of them. "I-I'm sure if we just don't bother her, we'll be fine," Kelley said.

Without even looking, Susie pulled out her wand and waved it around. Suddenly the calm river became a raging rapid, leading straight to a waterfall.

"Ah. Well, heck," Dakota said.

Kelley and Dakota desperately tried to paddle to the shore, but to no avail. They were in it for the long haul. Kelley sighed. "If I knew this was going to happen, I would have stayed at home and learned to knit or something a bit calmer!"

Dakota turned and looked at him. "Well, if we survive this, I can teach you to crochet!"

"That'd be nice," said Kelley, as they both went over the edge of the waterfall. When Kelley opened his eyes again, he was clutching onto the front of Dakota's canoe. He rubbed his eyes and looked back. His canoe had a hole in it and was rapidly sinking. "Oh geez!"

"It's alright!" the canoe responded. "I can breathe underwater and I've always wanted to be underneath the water all this time, and I've finally got my wish!"

"That's nice," Kelley yelled back. "I'm glad it worked out for you! Have a nice life, canoe!"

"You too! Good luck with your adventures and evil counselor arch-enem-bbbbb..."

Kelley got off the front of Dakota's canoe and sat next to her. She handed him an oar and they got to paddling. The river was calm again, but was more eerie than before. The woods here were thick, and dark, the sun only barely peeking past the leaves.

"My friend Opalina would love this," said Dakota.

"...What? The canoe ride or these woods?"

"Oh, the woods. I don't think she knows how to swim. You should meet her, she's here too. You two might get along!"

"That sounds… wonderful," replied Kelley. He was already a bit tired of meeting people and adventure, and just wanted to get back to his bed and lay down.