“This is Silas, god of the earth and land.” “It is. He was the first to fall in love with a mortal, and it was not because he was bored,” she said. “He truly loved her. In fact, he has not loved another so thoroughly since.” “How can you possibly know that?” Tessa scoffed. “The point is,” Auryon continued, “some of the gods truly loved the mortals they had children with. They mourned them when they passed, some grieving for decades.
