A Third Of Love

Chapter 10: A Tale Of Valentines

Happy Valentine's Day! Love blossoms in the air on this day, much to everyone's joy, including mine.

I used to love this holiday — easily in my top five!

Yeah, that's a shocker, isn't it — me liking Valentine's Day?

But I've actually got quite a lot of memories of this day — some bad, yes, but a lot of good ones as well. And it's always interesting to watch humans on this day, if a little sad.

When I look at humans on Valentine's Day, I hear so many of them talking about what they got, and how little they think their loved ones think of them. They're so focused on what they've done for them.

Ah, but they don't know how much fun the giving can be as well! They don't realise the time and effort that's appreciated when put in. They don't realise the joy you'd feel by doing something special and seeing your beloved smile so bright and wide that you'd do anything to see it again...

It's a real hoot among the gods as well — because literally none of them have any understanding of love. Well, they know what it is, and they can identify it, yes... but again, none of them are capable of feeling it.

By the way, there is a God of Love, and yes, even they can't feel love, despite being the resident authority of it.

Believe it or not though, gods do go on dates. Yeah, shocker, isn't it? You'd think they'd all have to abstain it from it or something, but apparently not!

Mind you, some gods do choose to abstain from it — Lored's done so for the entirety of his life, and considering he's lived since the beginning of time itself... that's a pretty long time.

Why? Well, he insists that his job is one that requires nothing but the utmost precision, which, to be fair, he's not wrong — monitoring all the knowledge in the universe isn't exactly easy. However, I can't help but suspect that this is the reason why he seems to have a perpetual stick up his ass... as Spelea once put it, 'dude needs the pussy.'

And speaking of Spelea, I know she and Pluvor are both fairly active, particularly the latter, or at least they were 110 million years ago... I wonder if that's changed?

That's not to say that Spelea doesn't get her fair share of gods — in fact, she's had quite a few! The issue... is that she's developed quite the notoriety for grievously injuring those who fail to adequately please her.

Yeah, the phrasing on that last part could have been better, but in the context you're likely thinking of — not entirely inaccurate.

As for Pluvar, I'd hesitate to call their dates, well... dates? Like, it's more of a hangout that might turn out vaguely romantic by the end of it? It's very strange... but... whatever works, I suppose?

In fact, as a dare, I went out with them once and... it actually went a lot better than I thought it would. Never would've guessed.

And then there's Avi. Holy shit.

I... I don't know how the guy does it, but damn... damn...

So, basically... he has people flock to him like a moth to a flame.

Yeah.

Loads of people. How many, you ask? Well, I'll put it this way — Avi's younger than both Spelea and Pluvar. He's had more offers for dates than both of them, combined, times five.