Today's OneWord: Chapped

Licking his very chapped lips, Gregory crouched down beside the frayed wires of the old computer monitor. His fingers twitched as he touched the fiery metal prongs, trying to work meticulously with them as his client watched cautiously from behind him.

"I don't really know what happened to this," he muttered, "but it looks bad."

"How bad?"

Gregory gritted his teeth. "Bad enough to need a new computer monitor?"