Love Delivery Network

her special someone leaves for the night and shes back to cuddling you, running her hands across your fabric. she holds you tight and prays that the love for her favourite person reaches across time and space to find its way to her.

thankfully, as a plush, you know it will. as she grasps onto you and imparts her love for someone else, you send it along to somewhere deep within the earth, or maybe disconnected from it entirely, where it’ll reach its destination. it’s a facility, unstuck from space and time, built for this specific purpose. unfortunately the delivery takes work. think about how many people do what she’s doing now at the same time, and the logistics of ensuring each love gets sent to the correct destination become complex, but it’s not impossible. thankfully, there are entities up to the task.

the facility is manned by other plushes who ensure everything gets to where it needs to go. although it’s within a plush’s nature to be inert, their main purpose is to receive and provide love in a way a human never could. with a bit of magic, they can do that here too. however, their nature, that preference for stillness, makes it a voluntary position… so where do they find those volunteers?

well: imagine a stuffed bear packed into a box that will never open, or a bunny gifted to you from someone that you never want to see again… for these otherwise forgotten little things, this place is their home. they don’t have to work for it to be their home, of course, but it’s in their nature to share love when they can, how they’re able, so they do. the knowledge that they’re helping share it is all they need. given that information, you can probably figure out what their society is like, the core idea it’s based on: that caring for each other, giving care and receiving care, is the most important and necessary thing in this or any other world.

so they man their stations, and when they do they’re in each other’s thoughts, and once they’re done they’re in each other’s arms, or whatever their equivalent is. and then it’s back to work when they wish, sending the love of others along to where it was always meant to be. some of it will get lost in conversion, from 30-65%, but metaphysically it’s a miracle any is sent at all. despite that, they work, as much as they feel they can, to ensure that the people of this world, across time and space, get to feel just a little less lonely.

when her special someone gets home, it’s already been delivered to her own plush. she hugs it, and it’s delivered as a warmth she unmistakably recognises as belonging to the one she loves.

only a 34% loss rate. pretty good job, all things considered.