I messed up a Mexican lizard. But he was totally asking for it. Let me explain.
I have a little trouble sleeping one night so I go out onto the balcony for a nip of Oso Negro. I get out onto the cool dark balcony and find my empty tumbler sitting on the table from earlier in the day. It’s dark, but there’s just enough starlight for me to open the bottle and pour. I top off the glass with some ice water from my water bottle. I raise it to my face, but I stop because I can hear and feel something drowning in it.
It’s this.
By this point he is literally up to his eyeballs in vodka water which I immediately pour out. I rinse him off with more of my water because it’s probably sucky to get a highball to the eyes. After a while he stops struggling and flailing and just sits there. I dump him out onto the table and he just chills there for a while. Then he slowly walks off the edge of the table and onto the underside where he hides from me as I make myself another drink. (In a different glass of course.)
*A skink is a lizard-like reptile.