Jason Croft was a fairly well-off student of the occult. He sensed his soul mate was out there, decided she was on a planet revolving around the Sirius, in a system of planets also known as the Dog Star pack. Deciding to use astral projection to travel to Sirius, he discovers a planet called Palos. Further, he discovers his spiritual twin lives there as he had previously sensed. Princess Naia, Jason Croft's aforementioned soul mate, is the daughter of Prince Lakkon, advisor to the King of Aphur. Having found her, Croft finds he cannot communicate or interact effectively in his ethereal, astral-projected form.