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 brought it crashing

to be caught in a daze. Without hesitation, Tessa vehemently crushed it with a few successive

when the snake had been utterly reduced to bits of mangled

then quickly

we managed to pick quite a lot of mushrooms.

to eat and drink. No matter what else

resembling an apple, growing on a tree

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

very sweet, but it’s

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

Being rather plump and short, however, climbing naturally posed a rather insurmountable challenge

made a few attempts but gave up after a while. Laurel was resigned to waiting on the ground below, picking up the

any fruits she’d managed to pluck, blissfully indulging in

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

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.

She’s been fumbling with her things

shrugged in

be quick! Once

can be so flippant about

entire tree. We even took the few that

killed was the only aggressive one we encountered. The

water, fruits, and a side of mushrooms, we

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

The other girls found Nora’s proposal agreeable and

be home soon,” we urged each other. Our spirits lifted at

saw flares of light ahead of us in

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

in. “I’ll take 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.

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

rest of us decided to pay

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

want? That question lingered in my mind as

craving. After a moment’s pause, I concluded, “I want to see the person I miss most, give

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

a faint smile but declined

of human life. The village we’d arrived at was located in quite a rural area of the

in the dark, there were probably thirty to forty

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

dog suddenly rushed out into the yard and began sounding

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

ruckus. Out stepped a middle-aged man

understood what he was trying to say. After a while, Tabitha gasped. “We might have unknowingly crossed the border into

journey we’d made, crossing peak after peak, hadn’t brought us any closer to home. We’d

foreign tongue threw us all into disarray. Upon seeing our confused faces, the owner of the cottage seemed to further mistake our intentions. He waved his axe at us threateningly in a

out of the cottage just then. She

the man for a while. He then

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

he understood. He did,

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

lamp hung from the ceiling, the sort that farming villages would have used decades ago. The lamp

tent

the tent

man took out two bowls from a cabinet and placed them

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

The food was steeped in chili.

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

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

days since we’d really tasted anything. The pickled

They gazed at us with curiosity and awe, mixed with

their uneasiness, Nora persisted in her attempts to communicate with them. Along with her

father and daughter came to understand that we

however, by

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

blearily woke the next morning, the man was

a basket, picking up the soft fruits

to pick up some fruit, she’d beam a smile in our

you rethink the link between happiness and wealth, doesn’t it?” Tabitha mused, looking rather

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

of events, and I feel as if I’ve been enlightened. How we live our lives should be entirely up to us.

aligned with the philosophical tendencies

we take a break

out into the yard and began picking up fruits with the

still couldn’t communicate with words but smiles

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along into the village in our hunt for a

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

best efforts at miming remained futile. We departed after a good

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 may even meet

If we aren’t careful, we may be mistaken for thieves

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

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

most promising idea we’d had. We cheered up instantly at the thought and launching into

mountain. Who knows if there’s even

she shouldn’t participate in any criminal act, regardless of its motive. She slipped off

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

and Tabitha walked boldly up to one of the villager’s yards under

fruit, fully

counted on the kindness of the villager. The owner of the house had been enraged at the two girls’ theft. However, on account of Nora and Tabitha being

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