[He doesn't answer for a long four seconds.]

The air conditioning was always broken.

[It's getting harder and harder to dodge this shit, the more he realizes the size of it. The mass of everything he'd had to deal with, growing up.]

Anyway, not the point. Long story short, things happened, and I had to leave that planet to go on a meteor road trip with Karkat and my sister and some other aliens for a while.