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.

Tabitha had flung away earlier, then brought it crashing firmly down

caught in a daze. Without hesitation, Tessa vehemently crushed

splattered everywhere. Tessa only stopped, satisfied, when the snake had been utterly reduced to bits

then quickly said, “Let’s go. It’s

a lot of

we’d settle down to eat and drink. No matter what else happened to us, at least

spotted a red fruit, resembling an apple, growing on a

of trekking had

very sweet, but it’s edible. We

the tree after Tabitha. Tessa, however, sat a little way off fiddling with her own belongings. She’d eaten

and short, however, climbing naturally posed

after a while. Laurel was resigned to waiting

leisurely on the branches. She greedily ate any fruits she’d managed to pluck, blissfully indulging in

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

another huge bite of the apple in her hand. “That made me nervous! Let me eat another

head helplessly, then continued throwing fruits down. Laurel

observed, “What is that woman doing? She’s been fumbling with her things ever since we got here! Did killing that

merely shrugged

you talking about? Let’s be quick! Once we’re

These girls can be so flippant about things sometimes! I fumed to

had enough and a little more besides, we’d wiped out the entire tree. We even took the few that weren’t yet ripe to be consumed later

the only aggressive one we encountered. The rest of the way, though bumpy,

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

slowly began to fade. We still hadn’t found ourselves a suitable resting spot for the 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. If we walk on, we’ll surely meet someone! We’ll be able to call

the only viable solution for now. The other

get to the village quickly. We’ll be home soon,” we

peak and indeed saw flares of light ahead of

I’ll surely take myself out for a good foie gras and a seafood buffet.

take everyone out to high tea,

I could eat a whole cow,” Nora declared exaggeratedly, popping the rest of the stash she’d picked into her mouth. Nora was a rather lovely girl, particularly

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

our cheeriness. Exchanging glances, the rest of us

never say never

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

in my mind

pause, I concluded, “I want to see

taken by surprise. Then she curiously pressed, “Is

a faint smile

finally reached saw signs of human life. The village we’d arrived at was located in quite

of lamps we’d counted shining in the dark, there

the night,” Nora suggested, already making her way towards the door of

yard and began sounding the

clung to each other, terrified. Fortunately, the dog was leashed to a rope. It strained against its

heard the ruckus. Out stepped a middle-aged man with tan,

After a while, Tabitha gasped. “We might have unknowingly crossed the border

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 country

the cottage seemed to further mistake our intentions. He waved his axe at

ran out of the

while. He then grew noticeably calmer and lowered the axe in his

Uncomprehendingly, Tabitha made a few

couldn’t tell if he understood. He did, however,

down within. Its clay walls were caked with soot, doubtless from the fire that

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

of the cottage was, in fact, a tent stitched together out of gunny sacks. There was dust everywhere. It turned to grime at

the tent looked sure to be

from a

continued to gesture furiously. He seemed

of us. The food was steeped in chili.

it’s 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 more exotic and unusual

day, we dug in rather gratefully. The flavor of the pickled onions, spicy with a hint of sourness, was

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

the man and his daughter squatted in a corner. They gazed at us with curiosity and awe,

to communicate with them. Along with her hand signals, she deliberately spoke a few basic words, emphasizing each

daughter came to understand that we were here to

were stumped, however, by what exactly a

from his fellow villagers. Until then, we’d have to

was already

a basket, picking up the soft fruits he’d

time she bent over to pick up some fruit, she’d beam a smile in our direction. It was as if she was eagerly trying to transmit her simple joy to

wealth, doesn’t it?” Tabitha mused, looking rather wistful. She looked

the door frame. “Why? Are you thinking

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

Tessa quipped. This discussion aligned with the philosophical tendencies

temple, groaning, “Can we take a

straight out into the yard and began

words but smiles and

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me along into the village in our hunt for

here! we thought. When we knocked on the door of the next cottage, however, Nora’s hand signals

efforts at miming remained futile. We

Laurel was the first to speak. “If we can’t get any results here, we should try moving further in. Perhaps we’ll get to the city. We may even

how much longer the road up ahead is. If we aren’t careful, we may be mistaken for thieves and locked up,” Nora countered. She plopped

locked up?” Tessa asked thoughtfully. “Surely, the local policeman knows a little more than the average villager. If we manage

right!” Laurel leaped to her feet in excitement. “If we get in touch with the local police, they may be able

the most promising idea we’d had. We cheered up instantly at the thought and launching into

village on the mountain. Who knows if there’s

remained steadfast in her conviction that she shouldn’t participate in any criminal act, regardless of

however, were enthusiastic. “Leave it to

up to one of the villager’s yards under the pretense of borrowing something. They then grabbed

returned with their arms laden with fruit, fully expecting

the house had been enraged at the two girls’ theft. However, on account of Nora and Tabitha being foreigners, the villager had

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