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.

up the stone that Tabitha had flung away earlier, then brought it crashing firmly down on the

seemed to be caught in a daze. Without hesitation, Tessa

when the snake had been utterly reduced to bits

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

to pick quite a lot of mushrooms. The

down to eat and drink. No matter what else happened to us, at least we knew we wouldn’t go

spotted a red fruit, resembling an apple,

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

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

belongings. She’d eaten quite a lot of mushrooms along the way and was no longer as concerned about getting food as the

and short, however, climbing naturally posed a rather insurmountable

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

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

clear head. She’d sensibly warned, “Look

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

throwing fruits down. Laurel continued picking them

aloof at the side. Looking down, Nora observed, “What is that woman doing? She’s been fumbling with her things ever since we got here! Did killing that

shrugged

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

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

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

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

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

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

for now. The other girls found Nora’s

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

peak and indeed saw flares

fantasized out loud, “When I get home, I’ll surely take myself out for a good

“I’ll take everyone out to

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 lovely girl, particularly when she

make it out of here alive. Let’s focus on getting out

rather dampened our cheeriness. Exchanging glances, the rest of us decided to

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if we indeed get to go

I want? That question lingered in my mind as

concluded, “I want to

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

her a faint smile

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

lamps we’d counted shining in the dark, there were probably thirty to forty households

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

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

each other, terrified. Fortunately, the dog was leashed to a

had evidently heard the ruckus. Out

of us understood what he was trying to say. 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

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

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

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

Tabitha made a few hesitant motions with

tell if he understood. He did, however, let us into

walls were caked with

lamp burned dimly at a bare fifty watts, probably to save on

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

heaps of blackened dirt that covered the tent looked sure

bowls from a cabinet and placed them before

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

steeped in chili. Nora recoiled ever so slightly, asking, “What

I think it’s supposed to be a starting dish. Shall we try it?” Tabitha exclaimed rather adventurously. She had more of an appetite

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

we’d really tasted anything.

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

to communicate with them. Along with her hand signals, she deliberately spoke

worked. Somehow, both father and daughter came to understand that we were here to borrow a device to

by what

villagers. Until then, we’d have to take shelter in this

next morning, the man was already up

picking up the soft

she’d beam a smile in our direction. It was as if she was eagerly trying to transmit her

link between happiness and wealth, doesn’t it?” Tabitha mused,

frame. “Why? Are you thinking of something sad?” she quizzed,

if I’ve been enlightened. How we live our lives should be entirely up to us. It

This discussion aligned with the philosophical tendencies she’d been

we

ignored Nora. She marched straight out into the yard

smiles and gestures seemed

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our desperation to head home, Nora hauled me along into the village in

someone must have a phone around here! we thought. When we knocked on the door of the next cottage, however, Nora’s hand

miming remained futile. We departed after a

hadn’t fared much better. We returned to find them 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. Perhaps we’ll get to the city.

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

up?” Tessa asked thoughtfully. “Surely, the local policeman knows a little more than the average

police, they may be able to send us

instantly at the thought and launching into

were in a village on the mountain. Who knows if there’s even a functional police station around here? I

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

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

villager’s yards under the pretense of

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

at the two girls’ theft. However, on account of Nora and Tabitha being foreigners, the villager had assumed that both

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