Tim O'Reilly needed to get his head back together. A couple years of adventure on the road as a seasonal crop duster promised to get his mind off his troubles and get him back to being his old self. As it turned out, dusting certainly did turn out to be an exciting adventure, but it wasn't quite as he'd imagined. It turned out to be an adventure of the classical kind, one that involved not only a lovely damsel in distress but also a "knight" of the darker kind.