Being large for her kind would help her stay alive, the knowledge of being large…would not. She sat in the sun, on the highest outcrop she could fi...d, her eyes roaming the landscape, she was the undisputed ruler of all she surveyed. Even the largest of the forest dwellers dared not question her authority. The spring sun warmed her, the breeze caressed her. She was hungry and…there was a family to feed. A mile away, below and to her left, her eyes picked out a movement–and froze. Yes, there it. By the third of them I was cryinguncontrollably, throwing my head from side to side, and yet maintainingmy Katy voice. Audrey held me easily with one hand on the small of myback, the other around a wrist to pull one of my arms behind me, so thatmy involuntary struggling cost me added pain. By the time the last ofthem was done, I was a sobbing sniveling wreck, the agony in my buttcheeks penetrating deeply and, I was certain, going to last many hours.Then Audrey surprised me by letting go and. "Clinic..." she said, "South Kihei Road. By ABC."I had seen the place she was talking about, and in my worry at her deteriorating condition, I fear I broke a number of traffic laws and pissed off a lot of otherwise easygoing drivers.When I carried her into the reception area, a matronly Hawaiian lady took one look and said, "Bring her around here, sir!"Sea Urchin stings are not new news in Hawaii, and she ran a basin full of warm, almost hot water as I placed my charge on the examination table.. Joyce pushed her face close to the window to try and get a glimpse at what it was. The object was small and cylindrical with a tab on its top that reminded her of the pin of a grenade. Oh gods, was he going to blow up the phone booth with her inside it?!“PLEASE please please, don’t do this! I didn’t do nothing to ‘ya, please don’t pull the pin.”The figure, silent as always, leaned down and unceremoniously pulled the pin. Joyce backed into the far corner of the booth and into a fetal position..