ropped from her body her insulating
blue robe of shimmering magic, so that her supercharged beauty shone
everywhere in blinding, awful attraction.

Druga, who had been sitting disconsolately talking to himself, rose to
his feet like an automaton and walked toward that more than mortal
beauty, his eyes blinded and his senses wholly submerged in ecstasy at
the sight of the glory of Eos unveiled. As he reached the Goddess he put
out his arms like a sleepwalker to take her to him, but she avoided him,
seizing him by a wrist and turning him about, hissing in his ear,
imperatively:

"Now prove to me that you are truly a mighty man of his word, with
courage and strength, and in spite of this body of mine go out of this
chamber and wait till I call without once letting your attention turn
toward me or noting anything that goes on, else are we both lost!"

Like a man weighted down with lead on his feet, Druga strove to obey
her, moving inch by slow inch away from that vast flood of energetic
attraction.

Eos watched him move slowly away from her, every muscle standing out on
his body and his neck corded with effort to keep his head turned away,
and a vast admiration for him rose in her throat and choked her. It
seemed to her that the statue of Feronia moved and that the stone face
changed, suffused for an instant with admiration also.

* * * * *

The swirling purple cloud of Diana's entrance moved nearer to Dionaea,
for in the hyper-space of her travelling, the points and dimensions of
this world were much alike, and she did not realize that Dionaea was not
in her palace at Armora. Settling about the two-headed creature lashed
fast to the pillars of the chamber, she moved herself within the snake
body and came to rest within the body of Baena, the snake.

Looking out of the dual heads of Dionaea and Baena now, Diana Triformis,
who was no stranger to dual and triple existence even in the same body,
saw with those four eyes the naked body of Eos, reflecting, emanating,
giving off in vast floods the focused energies of the Pole of Female
Life-energy, and those four eyes fastened hypnotized upon that glory,
female beyond any other life in all space.

Eos moved closer and closer to the bound snake, murmuring soft words:

"Oh, Diana, wonderful one, long have I desired you, for I know your
secret, that you are not female as your body seems, but male. So I have
decided to have you for myself, for