Cursed to live a mundane life with a dead-end job, Tracer found his world turned upside down when he was whisked away from his very universe, displaced into another world entirely. Walking home from the corner store, he suddenly found himself floundering in the middle of an ocean, with no idea where he was, or how he'd gotten there. It was by sheer luck that a small boat was passing by, with Teng coming over to help him. The two interacted briefly before Teng brought Tracer back to land, since Tracer was convinced that he was just somehow lost, but inevitably found himself stranded in a world he knew nothing about.

He came across Teng again some time later, where Teng had to all but rescue him from a potential lifetime of indentured servitude, and the two have remained inseparable ever since. Teng keeps Tracer close, showing him all of his little hidey-holes across the land and sea both, the two of the letting the stars guide their paths.