In Love, Never Say Never

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In love, never say never chapter 641

“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.

the stone that Tabitha had flung away earlier, then

snake seemed to be caught in a daze. Without hesitation, Tessa vehemently crushed it with a few successive

everywhere. Tessa only stopped, satisfied, when the snake had

on turned a sickly pale. Nora gulped, then quickly said, “Let’s go. It’s getting late, and

forward, we managed to pick quite a lot of mushrooms. The forested mountain

and drink. No matter what else happened to us, at least we

a day’s journey, we spotted a red fruit, resembling

Nora panted. The near-constant rate of trekking had left

tossed a few down. “It’s grown in the wild. It’s not very sweet, but it’s edible. We can pick them

with her own belongings. She’d eaten quite a lot of mushrooms

short, however, climbing naturally posed a rather

a while. Laurel was resigned to waiting on the ground

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

She’d sensibly warned, “Look out

wildly surveyed her surroundings, then took another huge bite of the apple in her hand. “That made me nervous! Let me eat

fruits down. Laurel continued picking them up in her

is that woman doing? She’s been fumbling with her things ever since we got here! Did killing that snake mess

shrugged in

Let’s be quick! Once we’re done picking the fruits,

These girls can be

besides, we’d wiped out the entire tree. We even took

The rest of

our ample supply of water, fruits, and a side of mushrooms, we

“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

only viable solution for now. The other girls found Nora’s proposal agreeable and continued

to the village quickly. We’ll be home soon,” we urged each other. Our spirits lifted at the

we crossed another peak and indeed saw

I get home, I’ll surely take myself out for a good foie gras and a

in. “I’ll take everyone out to high tea,

eat some steak. I feel as if 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

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

the rest of us

say never

we indeed get to go home

did I want? That question lingered in my mind as I continued

was especially craving. After a moment’s pause, I concluded, “I want to see the person I

surprise. Then she curiously pressed, “Is it somebody you’re

gave her a faint

arrived at was located in quite a rural area of the mountains, and perhaps due

dark, there were probably thirty to

find a place to hunker down for the night,” Nora suggested, already making her way towards the door

rushed out into the yard and began sounding the alert at our sudden

terrified. Fortunately, the dog was leashed to

the cottage had evidently heard the ruckus. Out stepped

understood what he was trying to say. After a while, Tabitha gasped. “We might have unknowingly crossed the

The arduous journey we’d made, crossing peak after peak, hadn’t brought us any closer to home. We’d even

Upon seeing our confused faces, the owner of the cottage seemed to further mistake our intentions. He waved his axe at us threateningly in a bid

young woman, approximately sixteen years of age, ran out of the

conferred with the man for a while. He then grew

a few hesitant motions with her hands in

he understood. He did, however, let us into his

sight and stripped down within. Its clay walls were caked with soot, doubtless from

sort that farming villages would have used decades ago. The lamp burned

The roof of the cottage was, in fact, a tent stitched

heaps of blackened dirt that covered the tent looked sure to be

out two bowls from a

gesture furiously. He

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

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

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

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

his daughter squatted in a corner. They gazed at us with curiosity and

with them. Along with her hand signals,

to understand that we were here to borrow a

however, by what

seek help from his fellow villagers. Until then, we’d have to take shelter in this battered cottage. Compared to spending a night out in the open mountains,

the next morning, the man was already

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

she’d beam a smile in our direction. It was as if she

doesn’t it?” Tabitha mused, looking rather wistful. She looked almost like a child with

door frame. “Why? Are you thinking of something sad?”

whole turn of events, and I feel as if I’ve been enlightened. How we live our lives should be entirely up

with 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

with words but smiles and gestures

love, never say never

Nora hauled me along into the village in our hunt

here! we thought. When we knocked on the door of the next cottage, however, Nora’s hand signals asking for a phone only met

best efforts at miming remained futile. We departed after

side, disconsolate. 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.

that will be really low though. We don’t know how much longer the road up ahead is. If we aren’t careful, we may be mistaken for thieves and locked up,”

local policeman knows a little more than the average villager. If we manage to explain our situation to them,

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

all agreed that this was the most promising idea we’d had. We cheered up instantly at the thought and launching into a feverish discussion of what we should do to capture the attention of

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

conviction that she shouldn’t participate in any criminal act, regardless of its motive. She slipped off before our discussion

“Leave it to

evening, Nora and Tabitha walked boldly up to one of the villager’s yards under the pretense of borrowing something. They then

them returned with their arms laden with fruit, fully expecting the police

Tabitha had counted on the kindness of the villager. The owner of the house had been enraged at the two girls’

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