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.

that Tabitha had flung away earlier, then brought it crashing firmly

maimed; the snake seemed to be caught in a daze. Without

when the snake had been utterly

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

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

to eat and drink. No matter

spotted a red fruit, resembling an apple, growing

near-constant rate of trekking had left her face flushed

very sweet, but it’s edible. We can pick them all and bring them along

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

her best shot. Being rather plump and short, however, climbing

a while. Laurel was resigned to

fruits she’d managed to pluck, blissfully

clear head. She’d sensibly warned, “Look

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

down. Laurel

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

merely shrugged in

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

trivial matters? These girls can be so flippant

ensure that we had enough and a little more besides, we’d wiped out the entire tree. We even took the

we’d killed was the only aggressive one we encountered. The rest of the way, though bumpy, contained nothing as treacherous as

of water, fruits, and a

few peaks, daylight slowly began to fade. 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

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

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

another peak and indeed saw flares of light ahead of us

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

take everyone out to high tea, then.

I feel as if I could eat a whole cow,” Nora declared exaggeratedly, popping the rest of the

rather evenly, “We’re lucky to make it out of

our cheeriness. Exchanging glances, the rest

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go home this time around, what

in my mind as

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

Then she curiously pressed,

gave her a faint smile but declined to

quite a rural area of the mountains, and perhaps due to its

counted shining in the dark, there were probably thirty to forty households scattered throughout

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

A dog suddenly rushed out into the yard and

to each other, terrified. Fortunately, the dog was leashed to a rope. It strained against its tether, barking

the ruckus. Out stepped a middle-aged man with tan,

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 gone so far

to further mistake our intentions. He waved

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

woman urgently conferred with the man for a while. He then grew noticeably calmer and lowered the axe

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

if he understood. He did, however, let

and stripped down within. Its clay walls were caked with soot, doubtless from the fire that was burning

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

cottage was, in fact, a tent

dirt that covered the tent looked

man took out two bowls from a cabinet and

to gesture furiously. He seemed to

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

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

day, we dug in rather gratefully. The flavor of

we’d really tasted anything. The pickled onions thus thoroughly satisfied our

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

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

and daughter came to understand that we were here

were stumped, however, by what

help from his fellow villagers. Until then, we’d have to

was already up in the tree

the tree with a basket, picking up

some fruit, she’d beam a smile in our direction.

you rethink the link between happiness and wealth, doesn’t it?” Tabitha mused, looking rather wistful. She looked almost like

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

“Not really. I was reflecting on this whole turn of events, and I feel as if I’ve been

been destined!” Tessa quipped. This discussion aligned with the philosophical tendencies she’d been harboring all this way. We’d finally managed to

her temple, groaning, “Can we take

out into the yard and began picking up fruits with

smiles and gestures seemed to

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along into the village

century! Surely someone must have a phone around here! we thought. When we knocked on the

at miming remained futile. We departed after a good while,

and Laurel 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

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

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

“If we get in touch with the local police, they may be able to

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

knows if there’s even a functional police station around

shouldn’t participate in any criminal act,

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

and Tabitha walked boldly up to one of the villager’s yards under the pretense of borrowing something. They then grabbed a bundle of items

of them returned 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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