The chapter opens with a description of a stowaway who has arrived at the New York Air Academy. The captain tells the stowaway not to give him any trouble until he arrives at the academy. The stowaway is upset that the captain broke his arm when he tried to rescue him. He tells the captain to buy a cab so he can get back to the academy, but the captain refuses, saying he doesn't want to be a part of the traffic jam. The chapter ends with the captain explaining that the five elders of the academy did not want the two of them to fight each other because they are all dead. Three weeks later, the captain asks how things are going. He says that crime has spiked three times in the last few weeks, and people are asking if the Harlem tiger is real. The man tells the man that he has been waiting a long time for the man to meet him, and the man says that he understands his confusion, but that there is much he needs to learn if they are to be friends. The two men agree that they do not choose their destiny, and that it is okay for them to be afraid.