The past is a refuge for retired exotic meat collector Caffrey Quark, a place and time where he can lose himself in the one thing that gave his life meaning: rock & roll.
 But a blue android, a purple-eyed woman and a dog who is more than he appears are just a few of the interruptions to Caffrey's idyllic life that send him on a quest to save the Wisest Substance in the Universe, the all but mythical L'Orange--not to mention life as we know it.

Rupert Starbright, separated from his guide and protector Dream Weaver, travels the dangerous Wildness with two wild boys who have vowed to help Murkus defeat Queen Chroma and conquer Far-Myst. Separated from the boy who calls himself Xerks, Rupert and the other boy, who is none other than Dream Weaver's son Quix, stumble on a gateway to a land of mystery--My-Myst, the land of the dreaded Truseens. As Murkus, now a creature half man and half dragon, sucks all the joy and color from Far-Myst with his deadly dark sun, Rupert decides he must confront his enemy and ask him why he so hates...