Vassals of the Lode-Star

Thor Masterson, a hard‑bought lumber‑camp veteran, finds his ordinary life upended when his campus house is ripped from Midwestern earth and hurled into a violet‑tinged void. A strange green flame, a pulsing purple light, and a tilt of the floor turn his familiar study into the deck of a ship drifting across alien rock and red grass under a yellow sun. Disoriented but quick‑thinking, Thor peers out a cracked window to a sky speckled with unfamiliar constellations, realizing the whole world has been relocated.

Inside the shifting mansion, a frightened girl with violet eyes and a fierce dwarf wielding a club confront him. The dwarf attacks, but Thor’s battle‑scarred fists and instinct for survival turn the encounter into a sudden, gritty showdown. He shields the girl, offering cryptic reassurance as the house settles on an impossible landscape. With only fragments of knowledge about space and time, Thor must navigate this surreal nightmare, decipher the strange language of his companion, and find a way back before the alien surroundings become his new prison.