Chapter 5 Summary

As Prairie is about to leave, Zoyd gives her an unusual amulet-like business card, and the narrative backs up to give the story of how he came to receive it. It is in the final days of his marriage to Frenesi and she has gone off to Hawaii to be alone. Zoyd leaves the infant Prairie with Sasha Gates, Frenesi's mother in California, and works his way to Hawaii as a musician on an independent and obscure airline that provides a club-like atmosphere on its flights. He confronts her in her hotel room, but she is not interested in returning to him. He bums around Honolulu for a time before returning to California.

On one of the flights where Zoyd is entertaining the passengers, a mysterious dark aircraft comes up beside the passenger plane and attaches itself to it in mid air. Through...