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.

away earlier, then brought it crashing firmly down on the

be caught in a daze. Without hesitation, Tessa vehemently crushed

when the snake had been

other girls looking on turned a sickly pale. Nora gulped, then quickly

quite a lot of mushrooms. The forested mountain was ancient and teeming with

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

journey, we spotted a red fruit, resembling

The near-constant rate of trekking had left her

scaled the 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 all and bring them along

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 a rather insurmountable

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

she’d managed to pluck, blissfully indulging in the

head. She’d sensibly

the thought of having to face another snake. She wildly surveyed her surroundings, then took another huge

fruits down. Laurel continued picking them

woman doing? She’s been fumbling with her things ever since we got here!

shrugged in

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

are they wasting time discussing trivial matters? These girls can

wiped out the entire tree. We even took

The

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

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

only viable solution for now. The other girls found

on, everyone! Let’s get to the village quickly. We’ll be home

indeed saw flares

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

take everyone out to high tea, then.

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

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

the rest of us decided to pay no heed to

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“Scarlett, if we indeed get to go home this

That question lingered in my mind as I continued trudging

any food I was especially craving. After a moment’s pause, I concluded, “I want to see the person I miss most, give him a hug, and

Then she curiously pressed, “Is it somebody you’re in love

her a faint smile but declined

was located in quite a rural area of the mountains, and perhaps due to its inaccessibility, there didn’t seem

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

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

suddenly rushed out into the yard and began sounding the alert at

terrified. Fortunately, the dog was leashed to a rope. It strained

the cottage had evidently heard the ruckus. Out stepped a middle-aged

of us understood what he was trying to say. After

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

seemed to further mistake our intentions. He waved his axe at us threateningly in a bid to chase us off his

out of the cottage just then. She tugged at the

with the man for a while. He then grew noticeably calmer and lowered the axe in his

made a few hesitant motions with

couldn’t tell if he understood. He did, however, let us into his

we entered was a dismal sight and stripped down within. Its clay walls were caked with soot, doubtless from the fire

from the ceiling, the sort that farming villages would have used decades ago. The lamp burned dimly at a bare fifty watts, probably to save on electricity

stack in a corner. The roof of the cottage was, in fact, a tent stitched together out of gunny sacks. There was dust everywhere. It turned to grime at damp spots where rainwater

the tent looked

two bowls from a

the man continued to gesture furiously.

front of us. The food was steeped in chili. Nora recoiled ever

we try it?” Tabitha exclaimed rather adventurously. She had more of an appetite than the rest of us

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

been a few days since we’d really tasted

daughter squatted in a corner. They gazed at us with

with her

and daughter came to understand that we were here to

were stumped, however, by what exactly

next day for the man to seek help from his fellow villagers. Until then, we’d have to take shelter

blearily woke the next morning, the man was already up in the tree in his

up the soft fruits he’d accidentally let

smile in our direction. It was as if

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

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

whole turn of events, and I feel as if I’ve been enlightened. How we live our

philosophical tendencies she’d been harboring all this way. We’d finally managed

“Can we take a break

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

communicate with words but smiles and gestures seemed to

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

the door of the next cottage, however, Nora’s hand signals asking

at miming remained futile. We

we can’t get any

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,” Nora countered.

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

police, they may be able to send us home. We won’t have to

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 the

village on the mountain. Who knows if there’s even a functional police station around

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

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

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

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

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

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