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Uki strode casually along. The albino tanuki hummed tunelessly, more keeping up a rhythm with the snare of his walking stick on the stones of the old road and the boisterous timpani of the trademark of his kind. His great 'pouch' hung low with its contents, grand orbs which rested just above his knees at the moment. The mythic beast had taken great care to paint the identifying markers into his fur, at least on his face and his tail. His pink eyes surveyed the forest road from beneath his takuhatsugasa and hanging over his soft shoulder was his hefty hyotan, sloshing with its contents. Besides the gourd's strap was the strap of his small bag resting on his opposite hip. The hand he had free of his walking stick grasped the pouch's strap where it met the pack.

Just as the raccoon-dog was about to walk through the part in a dilapidated stone wall that the old road passed through, a rustle in the trees brought him to a halt.

A slender dragon slipped from the trees, appearing to be a hybrid of eastern and western. His body was not terribly long in comparison to the length of its legs, allowing it to walk on all fours. However, those legs were large indeed. The five foot tall tanuki had to crane his head back enough that his kasa nearly slipped off of the top of his head, if it weren't for his hand bracing the apex of the rounded cone. The dragon's head craned down to below his shoulder height on his long neck. That still put his face twenty feet above the smaller traveller's head.

On the dragon's back were white feathered wings, yet another sign of hybridization, and rather than a tuft or a spade, his tail ended in a blue trident.

Uki spread his thick thighs to let his orbs swing between, closed them again, and sat down. He braced his stick in a practiced manner as he used his species' signature as an impromptu seat. The tanuki smiled in an amicable way to the large dragon. "Good afternoon."

"I've been watching you for a while..." The dragon chuckled, his eyes tracing over the heavyset anthro.

The tanuki seemed unshaken, as though he'd known he was putting on a show the whole time. "Did you like what you saw?"

The tall beast chuckled, "Well, from the look of things I'd just live in that nutsack if you let me." He licked his lips lasciviously.

Uki smirked. "Oh, so you stopped me to ask about vacancies?" Now stable he laid his walking stick across his thighs, not so subtly using it to prop up his fat furry sheath where it stuck up between his legs and pressing it up against the curve of his belly.

The dragon stared, a blush blossoming up beneath his facial scales as he stared 'down the barrel' as it were. He hadn't meant his statement literally it seemed, but the reaction told the raccoon-dog that he wouldn't really mind if it became so. After a long moment of staring he scoffed dismissively and turned his head to one side. "Ridiculous."

The tanuki, as if he hadn't just propositioned the forward dragon, merely pressed his point. "So, why did you block my path, good sir Dragon?" He glanced his eyes forward again, noting that the main obstacle was the tri-bladed tail, as the long legs would be easy to walk between.

Said natural weapon surged forward, stopping before impact, and lightly prodded the broad belly. At this close distance Uki was able to see the blades were sheathed in a waxy substance for the time being. Likely as a means to keep them sharp. "I am Eon, and these are my woods. I'm collecting the toll for travelling my road."

"Oh, is that all." Uki shrugged his shoulder, bringing his bottle gourd off his back and around to be caught in his opposite paw. Once he had a firm grasp on it, he pulled the cork. He blew across the opening, the high pitched sound indicating that it was nearly full but still had room for the air to resonate. He shook it to let it slosh and glorp wetly, indicating the liquor inside was thickened with something mixed in. "Perhaps a shot of my personal drink will suffice?" He lowered one hand into his side bag, digging for a leaf, and brought out a wide-based glass tumbler, holding it outward.

Eon scoffed. "Such a glass would never sate a beast of my size."

Uki corked the gourd and swung it back onto his shoulder, before grasping his walking stick. He pointed with it to the base of a nearby tree, close to the road. "You avoided this tree when you came out. I wonder why?" He struck the trunk with the tip of his stick.

Instantly a dust of heavy pollen shook free from the myriad cones on the tree's boughs, carried by the prevailing wind towards the dragon. Eon cried out in alarm, lunging forward towards the tanuki. "N-No, I... I cannot Sn-" He was cut off as the yellow powder struck his face. Eyes clenched shut, his chest swelled as he uncontrollably inhaled even more of the dust and then contracted as the natural reaction occurred in the form of a loud sneeze, sending the dust flying.

In that moment, the tall dragon vanished into smoke. Or at least, appeared to vanish. Uki's keen eyes spotted something falling. He held out the glass tumbler and caught it.

There, in the tumbler, was a very disoriented and very small Eon, his long legs hardly four inches.

Uki smirked slowly, setting his walking stick back across his lap. "Well..." He used his free hand to open up his sheath. "You did say you could live in my balls." He shoved the opening of the glass right into his open meatus and closed his sheath. The tanuki could feel the tiny dragon drop down into his depths. He pulled the leaf free of his sheath and tucked it back into his pack, before getting back up to his feet, sloshing his newly occupied nuts to the fore. He adopted his previous posture effortlessly, walking through the gap in the stone wall. "I wonder how long that effect lasts, Eon? Well, no matter. It's not like you'd bulge my pouch in the slightest when you resume your larger stature."