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.

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

thus maimed; the snake seemed to be caught in a daze. Without hesitation, Tessa vehemently

Tessa only stopped, satisfied, when the snake had been utterly

turned a sickly pale. Nora gulped, then quickly said, “Let’s go.

lot

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

a red fruit, resembling an apple,

The near-constant rate of trekking had

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

sounded like a good plan. We quickly ascended the tree after Tabitha. Tessa, however, sat a little way off fiddling with her own belongings. She’d eaten quite a lot of mushrooms along the way and was no longer as concerned about getting food

short, however, climbing naturally posed a rather

while. Laurel was resigned to

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

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

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

then continued throwing fruits down. Laurel continued

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

shrugged

quick! Once we’re done picking the fruits, we should hurry

trivial matters? These girls can be so flippant about things

the entire tree. We even took the few that weren’t yet ripe

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

water, fruits, and a side of mushrooms, we

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

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

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

our steps, we crossed another peak and indeed saw flares of light ahead of us

strode forward, she fantasized 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 myself to some cosmetic products that I’ve been eyeing for the longest

“I’ll take everyone out to

popping the rest of the stash she’d picked into her mouth. Nora was a rather lovely girl, particularly when she

lucky to make it out of

dampened our cheeriness. Exchanging glances, the rest of us

love, never say never

if we indeed get to go home

lingered in my mind as I

moment’s pause, I concluded, “I want to see the person I miss most, give him

Then she curiously pressed, “Is

gave her a faint smile

village we’d arrived at was located in quite a rural area of the mountains, and perhaps due to its inaccessibility, there

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

a place to hunker down for the night,” Nora suggested, already making

rushed out into the yard and began sounding the alert at

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

owner of the cottage had evidently heard the ruckus. Out stepped a

trying to say. After a while, Tabitha gasped. “We might

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

to further mistake our intentions. He waved his axe at us

years of age, ran out of the

conferred with the man for a while. He

Tabitha made a few hesitant motions with her hands in return, trying

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

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

have used decades ago. The lamp burned dimly at a bare fifty watts, probably to save on electricity costs.

and utensils in a neat stack in a corner. The roof of the cottage was, in fact, a tent stitched together out of

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

man took out two bowls from a

gesture furiously. He seemed to

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

Shall we try it?” Tabitha exclaimed rather adventurously. She had

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

had been a few days since we’d really tasted anything. The

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

uneasiness, Nora persisted in her attempts to communicate with them. Along with her hand signals, she deliberately

worked. Somehow, both father and daughter came to understand that we

however, by what

fellow villagers. Until then, we’d have to take shelter in this battered cottage. Compared to

woke the next morning, the man was already up in

a basket, picking up the

in our direction. It was as if she was eagerly trying to transmit her simple

Tabitha mused, looking rather wistful. She looked almost

Are you

“Not really. I was reflecting on this whole turn of events, and I feel as if I’ve been enlightened. How we live our lives should be

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

groaning, “Can we take a

the yard and began picking

still couldn’t communicate with words but smiles and

love, never say

head home, Nora hauled me along into the

twenty-first century! Surely someone must have a phone around here! we thought. When we knocked on the door of the next cottage, however, Nora’s hand signals asking for a phone only

remained futile.

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. We

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

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

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

was the most promising idea we’d had. We cheered up instantly at the thought and launching into a feverish discussion of

the mountain. Who knows if there’s even a functional

participate in any criminal act,

and Tabitha, however, were enthusiastic. “Leave

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

returned with their arms laden with fruit,

house had been enraged at the two girls’ theft. However, on

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