. ''She never rematerialized!' Béla suddenly realized. 'Oh, great gods! She's in between spaces!'Béla had no idea how she was going to work this. In...this insane attempt to find Beth, she was going to teleport, pulling herself out of normal space, and not push herself back in! She formed an image explaining what had happened to her sister and what she was about to do and sent the image to the Praetor for historical reference, just in case...'Do you have any data on this phenomenon?' she asked,. Her captor, who seemed to be an Arab by his dress, seemed toagree with his young victim, for he could not resist feeling the firmglobes with his coarse hands. He went to the wall, which was hungwith straps, chains, harnesses, and various instruments ofchastisement unknown to the young American girl, and brought back athin leather harness. Carefully he d****d this round her breasts,crossing over the shoulder straps at her back, and securing themtightly to the cross strap that went under her. His firm maintained a night shift of secretarial staff, and there was no reason for any of these to be interrupting him."Come in."The door opened, and in stepped a young blond woman, all curves and softness. Except for her eyes, which were blue, hard and demanding. These she fixed on Thompson.The lawyer jumped from his chair, and knelt before the woman."I am honoured with your presence, Hetaera Superior."Calista, the superior of the Aphrodite's Cyprus temple, was a shockingly beautiful and. Dominating the center of the room was my pentagram. I lit the ritualcandles and began the summoning chant. As I finished, the candlesflared blue and I felt another presence in the room. "Who summons me forth?" the creature in the pentagram asked. "I do, O Mighty One," I answered. "I request of thee a service." Iexplained what had happened, and what I wanted to do. "Thine plan isadmirable. There is a place of honor in Hell for thee when thy timecomes. The results of thy last request are.