I am weary of men, and want only the
boy Diana himself for my love, forever. Come to me, Diana, and dwell
with me here at the pole of love, and never leave me. Can you not see
that the enmity that has sprung up between us is the result of
misunderstood love!"

Now Baena, seeing his opportunity, thrust his own male personality to
the fore, trying to sway the intricate balance of sexes in the weird
self of Diana--and with his mind and his eyes upon Eos, made himself to
desire that infinite female attraction, which was not hard, so as to add
that much weight to the attraction which even a God might not resist
unless, as Druga had done, he turned his back upon it.

Diana could _not_ turn her back, and the whole sudden surprise of
finding herself not in the palace in Armora, but here in the halls of
her erstwhile enemy, Eos of the Dawn-light, made her natural male
attributes become dominant so that she desired Eos mightily.

Trapped thus by the circumstances, the lashed serpent body of Baena
which insisted upon gazing steadily at the vast and overwhelming beauty
of the unveiled body of Eos, and by the ignorance of Dionaea as to what
was going on, by her own masculine nature into desiring this essence of
all female attraction, Diana gazed upon Eos while the energies sent by
Eos' skill coursed in greater and greater ecstacy through her.

* * * * *

So it was that Diana fell in love with Eos, as Eos desired, and with the
Gods, love is an overmastering passion that may not be resisted.

Now Eos and the trapped spirit of Diana conversed together, and at the
subtle words of Eos and the overmastering attraction, Diana swirled out
of the body of Baena and settled engrossed about the glowing glory that
was Eos. Inward she was drawn, and mated there in mysterious communion
with the Goddess.

"If you but had a strong male body, Diana, we could live here forever in
love and ecstasy. Why not return one of the stone men of the past into
flesh again, become a man instead of half-woman as in the past--and so
learn anew to live and love differently and gloriously...."

Such were Eos' words, made potent by the golden glowing energies within
her, swaying the bemused Diana to her will. And Diana, with Eos' hands,
went to the wall cabinets and set out certain magical apparatus, brewing
an antidote for the stony seizure she had sent to Eos' lovers in the
past. This liquid she poured over the male of stone t