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.

stone that Tabitha had flung away earlier, then

head thus maimed; the snake seemed to be caught in a

when the snake had

Nora gulped, then quickly said, “Let’s go. It’s getting late, and we should

a lot of mushrooms. The

we’d settle down to eat and drink. No matter what

resembling an apple, growing on a tree a

those apples?” Nora panted. The near-constant rate of trekking had

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

own belongings. She’d eaten

plump and short, however, climbing

was resigned to waiting on the ground below, picking up the fruits we lobbed

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

maintained a clear head. She’d sensibly

snake. She wildly surveyed her surroundings, then took another huge bite of the apple in

then continued throwing fruits down. Laurel continued picking them

Nora observed, “What is that woman doing? She’s been fumbling with her things ever since we

shrugged

you talking about? Let’s be quick! Once we’re done picking the fruits, we should

they wasting time discussing trivial matters? These girls can be so flippant about things

entire tree. We even took

one we encountered. The rest of the way, though bumpy, contained nothing as treacherous

water, fruits, and a side of mushrooms, we

night, however. Nora grew visibly anxious, insisting, “Let’s keep going forward. I saw a couple of manmade

other girls found Nora’s proposal agreeable and continued their walk with renewed

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

another peak and indeed saw flares of

“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

everyone

whole cow,” Nora declared exaggeratedly, popping the rest of the stash she’d picked

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

glances, the rest of

say never

queried, “Scarlett, if we indeed get to go

question lingered in my mind

want to see the person I miss most, give him

surprise. Then she curiously pressed, “Is it somebody

her a faint

was located in quite a

the dark, there were probably thirty

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

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

terrified. Fortunately, the dog was leashed to

heard the ruckus. Out stepped a middle-aged man

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

us any closer to home.

confused faces, the owner of the cottage seemed to further mistake our intentions. He waved his axe at us

age, ran out

the man for a while. He then grew noticeably calmer and lowered the

toward us and gestured. Uncomprehendingly, Tabitha made a few

if he understood. He did, however,

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

ceiling, the sort that farming villages would have used decades ago. The lamp burned dimly

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

of blackened dirt that covered the tent looked sure

man took out two bowls from a

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

of us. The food was steeped in chili. Nora recoiled ever so slightly, asking, “What dish is

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

gratefully. The flavor of the pickled onions,

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

ate, the man and his daughter squatted in a corner. They gazed at us

to communicate with them. Along with her hand

came to understand that we were here to borrow a device

by what

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

we blearily woke the next morning, the man was already up in

tree with a basket, picking up the soft fruits

time she bent over to pick up some fruit, she’d beam a smile in our

mused, looking rather wistful. She looked almost like

arms, leaning against the door frame. “Why? Are you thinking of

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

tendencies she’d

massaged her temple, groaning, “Can we take a break

straight out into the yard

with words but smiles and gestures seemed to suffice for

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Nora hauled me along

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

efforts at miming remained futile. We departed after a good

sitting side by side, disconsolate. Laurel was the first to speak. “If we can’t get any results here, we should try moving further in.

aren’t careful, we may be mistaken for thieves and locked up,” Nora

than the average villager. If we

leaped to her feet in excitement. “If we get in touch with the local police,

thought and launching into a feverish discussion of what we should

there’s even a

in any criminal act, regardless of its

enthusiastic. “Leave

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

fruit, fully expecting the

girls’ theft. However, on account of Nora and Tabitha being foreigners, the villager had assumed that both girls were foraging for food and

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