Believe me, I am not kidding, and I’m sick of it. Been over five years of this -

[He quite deliberately cuts himself off there with a groan. He’s not going to let himself get into that - he refuses. His problems are his, he will not dump them on other people! Not even if they ask!]

Anyway. First place wasn’t like this at all - it was another world, but it was an actual functioning world. It had issues with time and space distortions, sure, but nothing like this. There’s actually someone here that’s native to that world, just from before all that distortion happened.

The second, you don’t want to know about. It was dead and broken, and I’m saying no more than that.