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.

had flung away earlier, then

in a daze. Without hesitation,

snake had been utterly reduced

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

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

down to eat and drink. No matter what else happened to

red fruit, resembling an apple, growing

near-constant rate of trekking had

It’s not very sweet, but it’s edible. We can pick them all and bring them along for something

quickly ascended the tree after Tabitha. Tessa, however, sat a little way off fiddling with her own belongings. She’d eaten quite

it her best shot. Being rather plump and short, however, climbing naturally posed a rather insurmountable challenge for

a while. Laurel was resigned to waiting

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

however, maintained a clear head. She’d

surroundings, then took another huge bite of the apple in her hand. “That made me nervous! Let me eat another apple to

shook her head helplessly, then continued throwing fruits down. Laurel

been

shrugged

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

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

enough and a little more besides, we’d wiped out the entire tree. We even took the few that weren’t yet ripe to be consumed later on our

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

our ample supply of water, fruits, and a side of mushrooms, we

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

solution for now. The other girls found Nora’s

everyone! Let’s get to the village quickly. We’ll be home soon,” we urged each

crossed another peak and indeed saw flares of light ahead of us in the

I’ll surely take myself out for a good foie gras

everyone out to high tea, then.

have to eat 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,

make it

glances, the rest of us decided

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go home this time around, what would you want to do most of

lingered in my

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

surprise. Then she curiously pressed,

her a faint

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

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

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

the yard and began

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

heard the ruckus. Out stepped a middle-aged

spoke, but none of us understood what he was trying to say. After a while, Tabitha gasped. “We might have

peak, hadn’t brought us any closer

faces, the owner of the cottage seemed to further mistake our intentions.

years of age, ran out of

while. He then grew noticeably calmer and lowered the axe in

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

if he understood. He did, however, let us into his home

Its clay walls were caked with soot, doubtless

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

The roof of the cottage was, in fact, a tent stitched together

covered the tent looked sure to be full of

from a cabinet and

the man continued to gesture furiously.

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

a starting dish. Shall we try it?” Tabitha exclaimed rather adventurously. She had more of an

in rather gratefully. The flavor of the pickled

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

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

their uneasiness, Nora persisted in her attempts to communicate with them. Along with her hand signals, she deliberately spoke a few basic words, emphasizing

to understand that we were here to

stumped, however, by what exactly a phone

could only wait until the next day for the man to seek help from his fellow villagers. Until then, we’d

was

the tree with a basket, picking up the soft fruits

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

mused, looking rather wistful. She looked almost like a

Are you thinking of something sad?” she quizzed,

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 entirely up to us. It doesn’t matter what other people

discussion aligned with the philosophical tendencies she’d been harboring all this

her temple, groaning, “Can we take

out into the yard and began

communicate with words but smiles and gestures seemed

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

around here! we thought. When we knocked on the door of the next cottage, however, Nora’s hand signals asking for

futile. We departed

to speak. “If 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. She plopped down onto the floor

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

“If we get in touch with the local police, they may be able to send us home. We won’t have

idea 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 mountain. Who knows if there’s even a

in any criminal act, regardless of its motive. She slipped

were enthusiastic. “Leave it to us!” they

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

arms laden with fruit,

the villager. The owner of the house had been enraged at the two girls’ theft. However, on account of Nora and Tabitha being foreigners, the villager had assumed that both girls were foraging

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