[ By not being human, that's how!! Not that that sentiment works sensitively in an intergalactic setting. ]

Dude— [ Short, but honestly awed. Maybe she's from a warmer planet, but the similar terms put a hell of an image in his head. ] Nothing can even live on our South Pole... Nothing but a handful of crazy people, anyway.

[ He can't claim to know much of anything about it, but he knows it isn't a white-picket fence kind of place to grow up. But more importantly, wait, he has to pause and take a moment to wrap his head around the most obvious and logical origin story from the perspective of one only familiar with the parts of the whole. ]

From... when a polar bear and a dog love each other very much?