Apathy. Complete and total apathy toward everyone and everything, that was what he felt, and in fact that was all he thought he could feel, forever. Of course he knew at some level that it wasn't true, that he would be able to feel at some point in the course of the journey, but right now, at this moment, he couldn't even fathom it.

So he lay on the sofa and waited, watched some television, and generally killed time until it was time to kill some more time. He ordered a pizza and ate it half-heartedly as he clicked through the channels on the satellite. There was the usual array of game shows, infomercials, and general women's interest shows, all of which were pretty much useless to him, but since he felt useless himself, he was determined to be one with the useless things, in order to build up the strength he needed to be the king of the uselessness. Because it was important to have goals - even if you were on track to be the laziest person in the world, it would still require some effort on your part to become king of the lazies, the leader of those who loaf. And this was his aim, which he thought he would get around to soon... maybe tomorrow or the next day.