So that I may appear properly at the banquet table I intend, in honor of this occasion, to take upon myself my natural shape." Scarcely had she finished this speech when Reera transformed herself into a young woman fully as lovely as the three Adepts.

She was not quite so tall as they, but her form was more rounded and more handsomely clothed, with a wonderful jeweled girdle and a necklace of shining pearls.

Her hair was a bright auburn red, and her eyes large and dark.
"Do you claim this is your natural form ?" asked Ervic of the Yookoohoo.
"Yes," she replied.

"This is the only form I am really entitled to wear.

But I seldom assume it because there is no one here to admire or appreciate it and I get tired admiring it myself." "I see now why you are named Reera the Red," remarked Ervic.
"It is on account of my red hair," she explained smiling.