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.

flung away earlier, then brought it crashing firmly down

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

the snake had been utterly reduced to bits of mangled

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

slowly forged our way forward, we managed to pick quite a lot of mushrooms. The forested mountain was ancient and teeming

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

fruit, resembling an apple, growing on a tree

The near-constant rate of trekking had left her face flushed and dripping with

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

own belongings. She’d eaten quite a lot of mushrooms along the way

short, however, climbing naturally posed a

Laurel was resigned to waiting on the ground below, picking up the fruits we lobbed her

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

clear head. She’d sensibly warned,

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 nerves,” Nora

throwing fruits down. Laurel continued

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

shrugged

talking about? Let’s be quick! Once we’re

These girls can be so flippant

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

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

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

for the night, however. Nora grew visibly anxious, insisting, “Let’s keep going forward. I saw a couple of manmade

The other girls found Nora’s proposal agreeable

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

indeed saw flares of light

Tabitha 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

take everyone out to high tea,

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

to make it out of here

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turned to me and queried, “Scarlett, if we indeed get to go home this time around, what would you want to

question lingered in my mind as I continued

want to see the person I miss most, give

seemed taken by surprise. Then she curiously

a faint smile

saw signs of human life. The village we’d arrived at was located in quite a rural area of the mountains, and perhaps

shining in the dark, there were probably

Nora suggested, already making her way towards the

the yard and began sounding the alert at

dog was leashed to

the cottage had evidently heard the ruckus. Out stepped a middle-aged man with tan, weathered

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

after peak, hadn’t brought us any closer to home. We’d even gone

of the cottage seemed to further

ran out of

for a while. He

man then turned toward us and gestured. Uncomprehendingly, Tabitha made a few hesitant motions with her

He did,

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

used decades ago. The lamp burned

some bowls and utensils in a neat 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

dirt that covered the tent looked sure to be full

man took out two bowls from

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

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

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

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

we’d really tasted anything.

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

with her hand signals, she deliberately

understand that we

stumped, however, by what exactly a

the man to seek help from his fellow villagers. Until then, we’d have to take shelter in this battered cottage. Compared to spending a night out

the man was already up in the tree in his

beneath the tree with a basket, picking up the soft fruits he’d accidentally let tumble

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

it?” Tabitha mused, looking rather

“Why? Are you thinking of something sad?” she

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

destined!” Tessa quipped. This discussion aligned with the philosophical tendencies she’d

“Can we take a break

ignored Nora. She marched straight out into the yard and began picking up fruits with

couldn’t communicate with words but smiles and gestures seemed

say never

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

futile. We departed after

was the first to speak. “If we can’t get any results here, we should try

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

bad about getting locked up?” Tessa asked thoughtfully. “Surely, the local policeman knows a little more than the average villager. If we manage to

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

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

there’s even a functional police station around here? I wondered

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

enthusiastic. “Leave it

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

them returned with their arms laden with fruit,

been enraged at the two girls’ theft. However, on account of Nora and

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