k in her armor might be found. Not
that Eos now needed any such thing, but she was kind-hearted, and wanted
Baena at least on her side. For she could see into the dual life and
thought of the two-headed monster, and knew that if Baena chose to set
his will against Diana when she was within the body and mind of
Dionaea--it would help her in what she planned.

"Baena," Eos at last said, "if you can find a way to help me against
this unnatural mistress of your mistress, I will repay you by giving you
anything you may ask of me."

Baena looked at Dionaea's head with the reptilian love-light glowing
frustrate in his great green-and-gold eyes.

"If you will promise to give me what is in my mind that I desire, why
then when the time comes I will see what I can do. I am weary of being
the tail when I was meant to be the head, and if I had it to do over,
this unnatural and self-willed appendage would remain in her proper
place."

Now Eos knew that Baena could not help desiring Dionaea as a mate, for
she seemed most reptilian in the strange snake-growth that had come over
her, and knowingly she nodded at Baena, so that he knew that she knew
what he wanted, but Dionaea did not know, for it never occurred to her.
To Eos, what the future might bring to Dionaea as the mate of a snake
seemed a proper revenge for what she had done in aiding Diana, and for
other cruelties of which Druga had told her. She planned accordingly.

* * * * *

Came that day which was the time appointed by Diana Triformis for her
visit to Dionaea. Much as she detested the need for entering the male
body of Baena to interview Dionaea, still Dionaea had been a valuable
ally, and Diana did intend in time to release her and give her again a
human body.

To this end she had made some inquiries as to how this might be done.
For in truth the method of doing so had evaded her mind in the
excitement and rage of finding what had happened, and in the task of the
spell she had created to turn Feronia into a stone image. For Diana knew
that what Baena had accomplished she could accomplish, certainly, and
the shame of forgetting how it might be done before the wise Baena's
critical eyes made her neglect to mention her intentions to either of
the two heads of the snake.

As the swirl of ethereal force that was Diana's traveling form settled
within the golden-moted atmosphere of the great chamber of the
disk-mansion, Eos stood up, and d