Faked out

So I'm sitting here, looking across the room at the tank, and I see what looks like a comparatively big dark patch near the base of his tail, one that wasn't there this morning. So I'm understandably concerned but I think maybe it's a trick of the light. 20 minutes, it's still there, so i go over to look, and as I get closer it's like "oh, it's still there, it's on his body, what's happened?". I get to the chair in front of the tank and it turns out that Alexander is sitting there with one hind leg raised up for reasons which are unclear to me, and what I thought was a sudden dark spot is, in point of fact, a foot. And Alexander just shifts and looks at me like "I'm sorry, can I help you? I'm very busy at the moment".


This will go down in history as the day I was faked out by an axolotl.