In Love, Never Say Never

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“Let’s go that way!” Nora called to us. She spotted Tabitha and Laurel just climbing out of the hole. “What’s up, you two? If you’ve had a good rest, let’s move on!”

The two women nodded as they dusted the dirt and grime off their wrinkly clothes. They glanced at Tessa, who was still immersed in her prayers. Tabitha mumbled, “She’s so pious. Do you think God with really bless her?”

Nora shrugged. “Let’s go!”

The forest was rather humid in the morning. The soil had become loose. One could hear the soft crunching of the earth just by stepping on it.

“Ah!” Laurel screamed. Then, she squatted on the spot she had previously stepped on and began to scrape at the ground.

Very soon, we saw what had been hiding underneath the earth. It was a cluster of yellowish-white fungi. Some of them had been crushed under her feet.

Only a few short and stout ones were spared.

“Mushrooms!” Tessa, who had been reciting her prayers the whole time, promptly came forward and started digging up the plants from under the fertile soil. She wiped the dirt off and began to swallow them a few pieces at a time.

Laurel, looking equal parts terrified and worried, wondered, “Do we… eat them raw? Just like that?”

Tabitha turned around and, indeed, managed to find other mushrooms of the same variety under some rotten leaves.

She passed some of them to us. “Yes, this kind of mushrooms can be eaten raw. There used to be plenty at my place and we did this all the time. Sure, they won’t satisfy our hunger, but it’ll have to do for now. Let’s eat!”

They dug in. The rest of us, having barely eaten anything for a day, followed suit.

Nora helped herself to some mushrooms. A while later, she looked at Tabitha, a question on her mind. “Are you sure we won’t have any hallucinations after eating these? Once, I watched the news about poison testers in the south. They usually do that come May and June. Those who really did get poisoned are said to be able to ‘transcend reality’.”

Tabitha chuckled. “Well, if you know which ones to eat and which ones to avoid, basically you won’t have any hallucinations.”

Laurel found many other kinds of mushrooms in the soil. She turned around to ask the expert, “What about these?”

Tabitha nodded. “Sure, but we’ll need to cook them. If not, we’ll see things that aren’t there.”

“That’s a pity. None of us have a lighter, otherwise, we could have made ourselves a feast supplied by Mother Nature herself,” Nora sighed as she stuffed more mushrooms into her mouth.

“Ah!” Tessa shouted all of a sudden, prompting everyone else to look towards her, surprise hanging on our faces.

“What? Has your God decided to show Himself?” Nora spoke in annoyance.

Tessa’s face turned pale, her body stiffened, as she muttered, “B-B-Bamboo snake…”

All of us followed her gaze simultaneously. There was a tiny green snake, about fifty centimetres in length, hanging around the leaves of the tree next to her.

We would not have noticed it if we had not been paying attention. The snake spat out its forked tongue. It looked like it was preparing an attack.

“This snake is venomous. We have to be careful!” Tabitha yelled, her face pale and haggard.

I scanned the surroundings from the corner of my eyes. There was a branch that must have been snapped in half by the wind. One of its ends seemed rather sharp.

“What now! What now! I’m going crazy just looking at that ugly thing! Ah, it’s giving me goosebumps!” Nora stood close to me. Driven by anxiety and fright, she clung tightly onto me as if her life depended on it.

I wanted to comfort her, but I was scared too. The creature was inches away from us, equipped with venom!

“Is it not too late if we run now?” Nora muttered, already backing away.

“It’s too late!” Tessa said, her voice trembling. “This is a bamboo snake. It’ll come after us.”

“Damn it! But we can’t just stay here like this!”

Laurel was so scared that she was shaking uncontrollably, her face completely drained of color.

“Kill it!” Tabitha proposed. Despite being scrawny, she dared to glare at the reptile hiding among the leaves with a wicked glint in her dark eyes.

Tessa was closest to the snake. Any careless movements and the snake could latch onto her and sink its fangs on her neck.

But she was too frightened at the moment to do anything. Her body kept shaking. “Don’t provoke it, you guys. I’m scared.”

“What are you scared of? You recite your prayers all the time, right? Your God will protect you. Go on,” Nora said, with great irony.

In a situation like this, no one could afford to be distracted.

Tabitha turned to instruct Tessa. “Okay, here’s what we’re going to do. I’ll count to three. You get ready to dodge. I will throw a rock and see if I can hit it.”

What?

Tessa was on the verge of tears. “You can’t possibly hit it! The chances are slim. What if you hit me instead? I’ll die!”

“Do you have other ideas?” Tabitha asked a rhetorical question. Tessa shook her head in despair.

“It’s a gamble then!” With that said, Tabitha slowly bent down and picked up a stone.

Tessa was really having a breakdown, but time was running out and we had no other choice. We had to take our chances.

“One, two, three… Duck!” As if on cue, Tessa promptly moved away.

Tabitha flung the stone towards the bamboo snake hiding among the leaves.

Wild animals often had faster reflexes than humans.

The bamboo snake evaded Tabitha’s attack. Angered, it made its advance on Tessa, who had just barely got out of its way.

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A reactionary creature like this was even more fearful when it sprang into action.

It’s going to get Tessa! I hastily picked up the branch I’d spotted earlier on the ground and jabbed its sharp side at the snake.

Thankfully, that single thrust pierced through the snake’s mid-section and successfully pinned it down.

Its head and tail, however, remained wriggling furiously.

Tessa was still recovering from her fright. Anger and shock coursed through her, forming a volatile mix of emotions.

picked up the stone that Tabitha had flung away earlier, then

caught in a daze. Without hesitation, Tessa vehemently crushed it with a

satisfied, when the snake had been utterly reduced to bits of mangled

then quickly

to pick quite a lot of mushrooms. The forested mountain was

eat and drink. No matter what else happened to

journey, we spotted a red fruit, resembling an apple,

apples?” Nora panted. The near-constant rate of trekking had left her face flushed and dripping

in the wild. It’s not very sweet, but it’s

a little way off fiddling with her own belongings. She’d eaten quite a lot of mushrooms along the way and was

her best shot. Being rather plump and short, however, climbing naturally posed a

while. Laurel was resigned to waiting on the ground below, picking up the fruits we

any fruits she’d managed to pluck, blissfully indulging in

maintained a clear head. She’d sensibly warned, “Look out for

Nora shrieked, terrified at the thought of having to face another snake. She wildly surveyed her surroundings, then took another huge bite of the apple in her hand. “That made me nervous! Let me eat another apple to calm my nerves,” Nora

continued throwing fruits down. Laurel continued

that woman doing? She’s been fumbling with her things ever since

shrugged

Once we’re done picking the

trivial matters? These girls can be so flippant about things sometimes! I

we had enough and a little more besides, we’d wiped out the entire tree. We even took the

was the only aggressive one we encountered. The rest

supply of water, fruits, and a side of mushrooms, we considered ourselves

night, however. Nora grew visibly anxious, insisting, “Let’s keep going forward. I saw a couple of manmade paths along the trail, which means there must be a village or two nearby.

seemed to be the only viable solution for now. The other

We’ll be home

steps, we crossed another peak and indeed saw flares of light ahead of us

“When I get home, I’ll surely take myself out for a good foie gras and a seafood buffet. Besides, I’ll treat myself to

joined in. “I’ll take everyone out

popping the rest of the stash she’d

rather evenly, “We’re lucky to make it out of here alive. Let’s

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me and queried, “Scarlett, if we indeed get to go home this time around, what would you want to do most of

lingered in my mind as I continued

After a moment’s pause, I concluded, “I want to see the person I

curiously pressed, “Is it

faint smile

reached saw signs of human life. The village we’d arrived at was located in quite a rural area of the mountains, and perhaps

shining in the dark, there were probably thirty

for the night,” Nora suggested, already making

Woof!” A dog suddenly rushed out into the yard and began

leashed to

the cottage had evidently heard the ruckus. Out

he was trying to say. After a

The arduous journey we’d made, crossing peak after peak, hadn’t brought us any closer to home. We’d even gone so far that we were in another

tongue threw us all into disarray. Upon seeing our confused faces, the owner of the cottage seemed to further mistake our intentions. He waved his axe at us threateningly

age, ran out of the cottage just then. She tugged at

young woman urgently conferred with the man for a while. He then grew noticeably calmer and lowered

gestured. Uncomprehendingly, Tabitha made a few hesitant

understood. He did, however,

clay walls were caked with soot, doubtless from the fire that was burning in

sort that farming villages would have used decades ago. The lamp burned dimly at a bare

fact, a tent stitched together out of gunny sacks. There was dust

covered the tent looked sure

man took out two bowls from a

language barrier, the man continued to gesture furiously. He seemed

peered at the bowls in front of us. The food was steeped in chili. Nora recoiled

supposed to be a starting dish. Shall we try it?” Tabitha exclaimed rather adventurously. She had more of an appetite than the rest of us for

for a whole day, we dug in rather gratefully. The flavor of the pickled

been a few days since we’d really tasted anything. The pickled onions thus

in a corner. They gazed at us with curiosity and awe, mixed with a

persisted in her attempts to communicate with them. Along with her hand signals, she deliberately

and daughter came to understand that we were here to

however, by

then, we’d have to take shelter in this battered cottage. Compared to spending a night out in

next morning, the man was already

the tree with a basket, picking up the soft fruits he’d accidentally let tumble onto

our direction.

rethink the link between happiness and wealth, doesn’t it?” Tabitha mused, looking rather wistful. She looked

door frame. “Why? Are you thinking of

I was reflecting on this whole turn of events, and I feel as if I’ve been enlightened. How we live our lives should

the philosophical tendencies she’d been harboring all this way. We’d finally managed to pique her

“Can we take a break from philosophy for

Nora. She marched straight out into the yard and began picking up fruits with the young

still couldn’t communicate with words but smiles

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me along into the village in our

we thought. When we knocked on the door of the next cottage, however,

miming remained futile. We departed

speak. “If we can’t get any results here, we should try moving further in. Perhaps we’ll get to

really low though. We don’t know how much longer the road up ahead is. If we aren’t

knows a little more than the average villager. If we manage to explain

“If we get in touch with the local police, they may be able to send us home. We won’t have

at the thought and launching into a

were in a village on the mountain. Who knows if there’s even a functional police

shouldn’t participate in any criminal act, regardless of its motive. She slipped off

Tabitha, however, were enthusiastic. “Leave it to us!” they

the villager’s yards under the

with their arms laden with fruit, fully expecting the police to be hot

on the kindness of the villager. The owner of the house had been enraged at the two girls’ theft. However, on account of Nora and Tabitha being foreigners, the villager had assumed that both girls

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