A Call That Changed Her Entire Life

Mrs. Yang went back to bed with her husband right after she locked Donny inside his room.

She woke up in the middle of the night to go relieve herself when she realized that the portable toilet was outside the door, so she had to get up and go out. As soon as she was done she raced back inside shivering with cold.

When she stepped inside, something didn't feel right. It seemed like she had stepped on something soft and slippery. As if that weren't bad enough, she felt it slither past her fast really quickly!

'Where is that hissing sound coming from? No...could it... could it be a snake?' She reluctantly lowered her head to look down and the moment she realized what was underneath her feet her entire body froze on the spot.

Mrs. Yang, much to her chagrin, had stepped on, not one but two venomous snakes!

Before she was able to move her feet away, the two snakes bit her on the ankle and left four puncture marks at the wound. With each bite, venom was injected inside Mrs. Yang's flesh and bloodstream.

She felt nauseated by the stabbing pain at the area of the bite. The poison soon affected her muscles which caused a shortness of breath and an inability to speak, move or see clearly. Somehow a scream dragged up her throat. "Help! Somebody please help me!"

The shrill sound of her scream cut through the dark night like a knife and frightened the sleeping birds on the trees, who fluttered their wings uncontrollably.

While the two slithery intruders crawled into a hole on the ground and vanished from her sight just seconds after they had attacked her.

"Can anybody hear me? Somebody, please help! Snakes! Snakes! I got bitten by snakes!" Before long, drowsiness came over her as she found it difficult to speak and move due to the paralysis of her limbs and muscles.

It was smack in the middle of winter. Where did the snakes come from?

Snake... snake... Who would want her dead? Who would have the guts to pull off something like this?

'Could it be...' she remembered the snake that she used to hurt Emily with. 'Does Bear know? Does he know?!

Oh God, he must know!

he lured two snakes here on purpose. He wants me

only possible

stumbled around in the darkness. Out of sheer

is

in her body and before she knew it, she fell straight

a spine-tingling cry from outside the door, no one wanted to leave their comfortable beds to see

he could do at the moment. Anxiously, he tried to pry open the window with his fingers, but his soft, delicate

slipped into Mr. Barefoot's house to see Emily.

terror and he rushed to his mother to wake her up. "Mother! What is going

pale and her lips had

She protected him from the world and took care of him. To him, she was more than

sight of her lying on the ground like that lifeless and desperate, crushed his heart. Donny couldn't imagine a life without his mother in it. 'No, no

resounded throughout the village and

on

poor Donny, your mother is gone. Don't be so sad. I will

joy bleeding out from his face. "Mr. Yang, you should hurry and bring Mrs. Yang to Mr. Barefoot

Yang's ankle! Are these snakebites? But where would snakes come from? It is winter now! Unless someone

could it be? Who would want her dead? Gosh! Whoever it was, must have really had it

lively conversation developed with every neighbor joining in. With one accord, they let their incredulous

was dying. Over the years, Mrs. Yang had been tough on Mr. Yang. As the head of the family and the village, he actually did not have any real power, and he had no choice but to accept that fact. It

pondered the more suspicious they grew.

with it, he still felt guilty. "Why

chance to strangle her in her sleep he would have done it a long time. Sadly, he lacked the courage to take such

villagers looked at him quizzically and said, "You should take Mrs. Yang to the doctor's then. She has no time to loose. Hurry up, if you