Baba closed her eyes as the warmth spread. This was not good; she knew it the moment she saw it that nothing good could come of something like that. All she had to do was get back to the shop, hole herself up, and work on an antidote. She could find some way to counteract this, but Eros had been created for one reason and one reason only - Love. It was bound and determined to make sure the sorceress found her one true love, or at least the one love she happened to spy with her big beautiful eyes.
She stood still for a moment, breathing slowly. Just take one step at a time, that was all she had to do. Just one step; walk slowly, surely, pretend she was Xanadu. That had been the plan anyway; Eros had another one. Down he swooped, getting in the way of the slow moving, almost fragile limbs. Down she went, toppling over the pudgy, bug-eyed beast.
If she wasn't afraid of opening her eyes, she'd have blasted that sucker. Used the City's power against it; done something to exact revenge for a ridiculous notion. Her temper was enough that she did indeed open her eyes. And that's when she saw him...