Scorpion tail terrapin.

I was in my old room at mum's house. There were now two aquariums of terrapins and I had completely forgotten about them for the last eight years. Somehow the terrapins had still survived and happily multiplied and there were now at least twenty in each aquarium, some of them as small as the nail of a thumb.

There was also a really big red-eared slider (which I just found out was the name of that particular breed of terrapin that I used to keep), about the size of the inner circumference of a typical car tire, which was kept outside of the aquarium. However, it needed some water and so I began the project of getting it into one of them.

It ended up with me having one of the tiny terrapins sitting on my hand and on its back seemed to be an even smaller creature, which had a form of scorpion's tale. I remember having the feeling of it not being able to sting me because it was a terrapin that just happened to be misshapen when I felt a sharp sting in my finger. I had to take a pair of tweezers to try and pull the stinger, which was now deeply embedded in my finger, out. I couldn't manage, it was stuck.

(I woke up with a sharp pain in my finger, unlike any kind of normal pain I'd felt, and completely untraceable. I was too tired to make a fuss out of it and find out what could have caused it. Instead, I went back to sleep and didn't feel a thing when I woke up in the morning. That day we ended up at a flea market at a huge temple ground, with a pond full of, yep, red-eared sliders)