286 - From the ashes: Ripples

There were many kinds of chill, but only one so despairing that it froze the bones and deprived of any hope about life.

'K' felt it at that moment, for the second time in his life. Then it ignited a fire in him, and he jumped up from the couch. He abruptly snatched the remote from his guard before he threw it at the TV. He followed behind and kicked the TV, hard enough to make it fall down, before he trampled it, again and again, as if to vent his anger like the puppet without any recourse he was, or as if to trample upon that controlling darkness he would never be able to really touch in his now cursed life.

The dim room hid his face, but it could not hide his impotent rage, his helplessness, his despair.

Only the sound of his feet trampling upon the defenseless TV remained, before he calmed down, at last.