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"Three years," she replied to Theordac before stopping to notice there was another person. Junyuu was not at all surprised in finding Freon in the cellar. "Oh him...? Is he a rat? He doesn't have to have a reason for being here. Unless he is actually a rat and the reason why the rats are here would be the food. Rats like food. I like food. But I'm not a rat. Strange world..."

Her toenails clicked on the cold tiled floor, on the tiles that were still there anyway. Broken and missing tiles gave way to hard packed dirt.

"Can't you see it's a cellar, stranger? Or, I guess not. This should do the trick..." Taking a leaf out of her pocket, she blew on it and an oil lamp hanging from the ceiling suddenly revived. It was a weak yellow light so after a second of thought, her cheeks flushed with embarrassment, "Or not.. again..."

Then the little girl, who was really a tanuki, jumped into the air. She sharply inhaled a disturbing amount of cobwebs and spiders from the rafters as she peaked in height. Quick as a blinking eye she spat out little flecks of light in a line, like seeds, into the darkness until a dozen more oil lamps were lit. After landing on the ground she started coughing spastically. She had good lungs from so much talking and so her coughs were loud and disgusting. A bit like an ancient, diseased animal which contrasted with her young form.

She dramatically beat the ground a few times, eyes watering, with her other hand in the air for a pause. Her striped tail thrashed nervously and her normally calm eyes were bugging out of her head. Momentarily, her face distorted, and she swallowed the obstruction in time to make a prompt answer in a half sing-song voice, "I am a tanuki. Tan tan tanuki. TAAA-NUUU-KEEEEEEE. Why is this not obvious to anyone... oh nevermind. I do see what you mean. I. Do. See. OH I SEEEEE HOW IT IS!"

Junyuu was flustered at first from being asked once again in the same day but then suddenly burst into hysterical tears. "W-well you don't look like you'd understand, you skinny and angsty man! I can't stay in my real form all the time or people will make fun of me for being fat. All female tanuki are fat, it is the source of our powers. Male tanuki don't have to be fat to have powers but... I want to be pretty... Allyoupeoplewhodon'tlikeillusionsandwantrealnaturalorganicstuffareallthe same! Big meanies!"

Then her form broke and she turned into a whining raccoon dog. She ran off between the barrels, sobbing.

Fluffy arm and tiny fingered paw shielding her eyes from the sudden spray of splinters, Junyuu brightened up immediately, voice going as fast as ever. "Fun is always better, thank you. My name is Junyuu. Nice to meet you, Herr Todd and some guy..." She was very impressed with his transformation and subsequent wave of various limbs rolling out from the barrels. The matter of shapeshifting and demonic feasts were very familar things with such creatures as the tanuki. "My, my, you must be a pervert. Look at these parts you didn't eat.... that leads me to think of the parts you DID eat! You know what happens to perverts? They get covered in slime!"

As soon as she finished her last sentence she sneezed, and the splinters, every single wooden shard along with the spare rotting body parts, were blown back to Herr Todd in the form of large slimy worms and maggots. The bugs should feel real, but the only thing that was real was the slime, because it was indeed a genuine sneeze with an abnormal amount of saliva and snot. Since she was by nature, a raccoon, she wasn't about to spray anyone with butterflies and whipped cream. And as this occurred she leapt directly for his face.

"Uhhhhhhh.....I'm gonna walk outside for a bit, it's getting a little disturbing in here." With that said and a little grossed out from what happened, he walked outside, took some air in, and breathed out, and then yelled out,"WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON HERE?!?!?!?!?" Then he calmed down after that, and then took a cigar and smoked for a bit before noticing something in the shadows. He peered into the darkness to see some small child sized figure in the shadow. He knew who it was so he whispered, "Well well well, what do we have here, what are you doing here kid, I told you to stay in the other town and away from here."
The kid replied in a soft tone,"That place was scary, I was all alone there, even my friend went lost, I didn't know what to do, so I came back here to find you." Marcus sighed for a bit and answered,"All right don't worry, I'll keep you safe from harm, ok?"

With the kid following him, his investigation might become easy or difficult."Ok,I'm gonna find you something to eat and drink kid, you should find a safe area to hide until I come back."With that said, he walked around the area in search of food and water, but the only thing he found was only a half a loaf and a cup, but there was only a little water left in it. Then he headed to the area the kid was hiding in. He opened the door and saw the kid sleeping on the floor, so he decided to leave the food next to him and Marcus layed on the wall and rested until the kid woke up.

"Just because you've never seen a rooster lay an egg doesn't mean that they don't secretly do it!" Junyuu sighed, as she scrunched up her face a little with thought and rubbed her chin. Her eyes darted from side to side at all the fleshy tentacles wiggling with menace at her before searching the ceiling as if it would have answers. The ceiling, which had rafters. A candle, where a stray hair had been, suddenly popped into existence above her head when she snapped her fingers. Soon after realizing that candle lights above someone's head was an omen of death she plucked it from the air while replying, "Wood. Wood. Wood."

Pouring sake from her favorite gourd into her mouth until her cheeks were full, she speedily retaliated with this: "Howmanystickscanyoufindin---lipstick where a flock of sticky clocks tick see its candlewick sit silently at a caustic kiosk?"

Would like you to burn. If she had thought of the pun earlier she would've said it, but instead the humor stayed in her expression only. She executed the line like a ventriloquist drinking a glass of water, except better. Then using the candle, blew an arc of fire at Herr Todd and his wigglies.

Theordac lay his hand over his face, his eye tightly shut as he let out a slow tired grown. Peering through his fingers he noticed that the Raccoon demon had completely left his sight.
Theordac's eyes went wide as the smell and heat of the fire met his senses. He took both hands and gripped his staff, it seems he had spend more time then he had though in the astral plane. Not being human, he sometimes lost track of time, after all being hours in the astral realm could only result in minutes passing in the physical realm. Despite all that the amount of work Theordac was doing behind the scenes was at such a vast scale, even he found himself at time stressed for times.

Theo followed the heat, but never got to close, he could sense that powers of somebody manipulating magic. And frankly such could lead to trouble, and frankly Theordac was not about to make a heated situation even worse unless he felt that action should be taken to perserve life.