Lifelong Skeptic Cole Harrington's adventure, on the Utopian world Baois, leaves him shuddering in a corner of his room. Initially rejecting the idea he'd been mysteriously transported to another world, missing constellations and multi-colored eyes soon confirm the undeniable reality. Fearful his alien identity might bring him harm, he passes himself off as a despised 'inlander.' But a new, twofold dread soon occupies his mind. First the identity of fearsome, fog-dwelling beasts known as the creatures, and, second, by what appears to be their principal prey. Doubly confused by the people's cryptic language and inaction against the evil monsters, Cole comes to one startling conclusion. Thank God there are no such beasts on earth.