An initial shimmer of heat haze was quickly followed by a burst of flames hanging in the air in the shape of Paimon’s sigil, then a robed and crowned human-looking demon appeared. His beardless fine-featured face looked like a woman’s, with ebony dark skin and glowing blue eyes. His body was hidden in thick, concealing orange-brown robes, and the gold crown on his head was enormous, with pointed horns curving out slightly to the sides, and an elaborately decorated gold sun disk towered up behind and between them, inlaid with fiery red gems. A sword hung at his left side in a sheath. The one-humped camel he rode looked deceptively normal, nothing unusual about it at all unless you counted the fancy saddle and blanket on its back, which was trimmed with loops of gold chain.