Señorita Pufferfish | ONC 2020

Sapphire's mournful howls of despair and grief pierced through the battlefield between her fits of hopeless sobbing. It was the sound of heart being shattered into a thousand, tiny bleeding pieces as the mermaid looked upwards. It was as if she was making a vow to the Heavens themselves. "I'll never love again."

The words were so soft that Aphrodite almost convinced herself she hadn't heard them at all. They felt more like the echo of a whisper hidden within a half-forgotten dream, but the goddess of love heardthem all the same. "Well, that sounds like a challenge."

Open Novella Contest 2020 Entry Based off Prompt #65.
You declare to the Heavens that you will never fall in love again. Aphrodite takes that as a challenge.