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.

the stone that Tabitha had flung away earlier, then brought it

in a daze. Without hesitation, Tessa vehemently crushed it with a few

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

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

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

upon the occasional spring, we’d settle down to eat and drink. No matter what else happened to us, at least

day’s journey, we spotted a red fruit, resembling an apple, growing on a tree a few

those apples?” Nora panted. The near-constant rate of trekking had left her face flushed and dripping

tree and tossed a few down. “It’s grown in the wild. It’s not very sweet, but it’s edible.

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

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

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 the fruits of

a clear head. She’d sensibly

of having to face another snake. She wildly surveyed her surroundings, then took another huge bite of the apple in

continued throwing fruits down. Laurel continued picking them

been fumbling with her things ever since we got here! Did killing that snake

merely shrugged in

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

matters? These girls can be so flippant about things sometimes! I fumed

ensure that we had enough and a little more besides, we’d wiped out the entire tree. We even took the few that weren’t yet ripe

aggressive one we encountered. The rest of the

and a side of mushrooms, we considered ourselves

we’d crossed 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

The other girls found Nora’s

on, everyone! Let’s get to the village quickly. We’ll be home soon,” we urged each other. Our spirits lifted at the

another peak and indeed saw flares of light ahead

good foie gras and a seafood buffet. Besides, I’ll treat myself to some cosmetic products that I’ve

in. “I’ll take everyone out

as if I could eat a whole cow,” Nora declared exaggeratedly, popping the rest of the stash she’d picked into her

it out

the rest of us decided to pay no heed to Tessa’s

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indeed get to go home this time around, what would you want to do

That question lingered in my mind as I continued

pause, I concluded, “I want to see the

surprise. Then she curiously pressed, “Is it

her a faint smile but declined to

reached saw signs of human life. The village we’d arrived at was located in quite a rural area of the mountains, and perhaps due to its inaccessibility, there didn’t seem to be many

lamps we’d counted shining in the dark,

Nora suggested, already making her way towards the door of the

A dog suddenly rushed out into the yard and began sounding the alert

terrified. Fortunately, the dog was leashed to

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

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

us any closer

threw us all into disarray. Upon seeing our confused faces, the owner of the cottage seemed to further mistake our intentions.

age, ran out of the cottage just

with the man for a while. He then grew noticeably calmer and lowered the axe in his

few hesitant motions with her hands in return, trying to convey our

tell if he understood. He did, however, let

entered was a dismal sight and stripped down within. Its clay walls

lamp burned dimly at a bare

a neat stack in a corner. The roof of the cottage was, in fact, a tent

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

took out two bowls from a

the man continued to gesture furiously. He seemed to

front of us. The food was steeped in chili. Nora recoiled ever so slightly,

try it?” Tabitha exclaimed rather adventurously.

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

days since we’d really tasted anything.

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

communicate with them. Along with her hand signals, she deliberately spoke a few basic words, emphasizing each

Somehow, both father and daughter came to understand that we were here to

however, by what exactly a

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

the man was

up the

to pick up some fruit, she’d beam a smile in our direction. It was as if she was eagerly

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

if I’ve been enlightened. How we live

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

massaged her temple, groaning, “Can we

out into the yard and began

smiles and gestures seemed to

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desperation to head home, Nora hauled me along into the village in

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

futile.

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

up ahead is. If we aren’t careful, we

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

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

instantly at the thought and launching into a feverish discussion of what we should do to

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

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

enthusiastic. “Leave

under the pretense of borrowing something. They then grabbed a bundle of

with their arms laden with fruit, fully expecting

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

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