Kai isn't one to feel cold.
Maybe is his unusual high body temperature on a daily basis, it usually runs high in the background, like computer programs silently do and it makes him keep a steady high temperature, until he starts to actively use his powers that is, which is when his inner body temperature takes a dive just to compensate the high temperatures now outside his body.
(The first few times it had given him such a bad whiplash he had been sick for a few hours and it was miserable, that doesn't happen anymore unless he ups his flames heat to very unusual and dangerous temperatures which makes the whiplash last a few days)
In conclusion, his powers doesn't let him feel cold, he can feel the fire around him, the heat of the weather, his own inner fire now projected outside as he summons it in a second, because is still his warm flare just in a different place.
He can count the times when he has actually felt cold, like his teammates usually do, and that's when he doesn't have his powers.
Like, at all. Stolen. Gone.
And he can tell you firmly that feeling cold is not fun, how does the rest of people deal with it is a mystery to him, he will always be grateful for his unusual natural heat.
He doesn't feel cold, not when his element is with him.
Which should make the fact that right now he's feeling the coldest he had ever feel in his life a red flag.
Like a very big bright red flag.
But he is surprisingly calm.
He's in the floor, curled up and he's holding something in his hands.
He isn't sure what is but is warm and liquid, somewhere in his mind something screams that this is wrong.
His eye catches a glimpse of red.
"Probably slept with my Gi again" Ah he should change out of it...
Wait, liquid.
Liquid...
Liquid?
He moves his mouth, there's liquid on it, the taste is metallic.
He tries to drink it. It doesn't work. Why?
Kai feels thirty, he thinks he should probably get up and get a drink.
But he can't move, he isn't sure why, but he knows he shouldn't move, besides, he can't, like physically, his legs feel too weak to hold him up.
And his head has started to hurt too, but the pain is not the problem, not really, doesn't feel that much different from the usual, maybe if he closes his eyes he would feel better.
Then again he can't really focus his eyes.
Vaguely he notices people screaming, like, raw screams... And is that the sound of fighting?
Kai momentarily wonders if he has come up with the flu, maybe the screams is Jay and Lloyd just playing video games.
Probably.
He can't breath properly. He coughs, oh how he hates being sick.
He has to wonder why his room is so bright and blurry, is probably the sleepiness, he doesn't remember having to use glasses so that can't be the answer.
(His room? He vaguely remembers being in a cold metal floor, did he fell out off bed? But why is it metal? Maybe he's just misrememebering)
And there's a ringing too, white noise in his ears, he finds it weirdly comforting.
He feels tired, he feels calm, peaceful, despite the rockus outside (because he is in his room... right?) he thinks he can sleep peacefully like this.
His eyes are unfocused and as he slips into a dreamless, cold, peaceful sleep his brain registers something blue running in front of him, trying to get closer.
He can't discern who is that thought. Whoever that is they're blurry, just like everything around him.
Blue uh?
He likes Blue.
He has always liked Blue.
Light blue, dark blue, bright blue.
Blue, like the ocean. Blue, like the sky.
He decides blue brings him peace.
Is a good colour to dream about.
Yes, he can sleep now.
Everything fades into numbness, his mind registering one last thing before it too fades into a black void.
"KAI!"
