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 crashing firmly

to be caught in a daze. Without hesitation,

when the snake had been utterly reduced to bits of

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

a lot of mushrooms. The

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

fruit, resembling an apple, growing on a tree a few steps

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

and 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

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

plump and short, however, climbing

gave up after a while. Laurel was resigned to waiting on the

fruits she’d managed to pluck, blissfully indulging in the fruits of

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 her hand. “That made me nervous! Let me eat another apple to calm my nerves,” Nora

fruits down. Laurel continued picking them up in her

doing? She’s been fumbling with her things ever since we

shrugged in

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

These girls can be so flippant about things sometimes! I

entire tree. We even took the few that weren’t yet ripe to be consumed later on

only aggressive one we encountered. The rest of the way, though bumpy,

of water, fruits, and a

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 manmade paths along the trail, which means there must be a village or two nearby.

for now. The other girls found Nora’s

quickly. We’ll be home soon,”

saw flares of light

for a good foie gras and a seafood

too, joined in. “I’ll take everyone out to high

cow,” Nora declared exaggeratedly, popping the rest of the stash she’d picked into her mouth. Nora was a rather lovely girl, particularly when

“We’re lucky to make it

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get to go home this time around, what would you

did I want? That question lingered in my mind as

pause, I concluded, “I want to see the person I miss most, give him a hug, and apologize to him

Then she curiously pressed,

faint smile but declined

The village we’d arrived at was located in quite a rural area of the mountains, and perhaps due to

the number of lamps we’d counted shining in the dark,

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

the yard and

was leashed

ruckus. Out stepped a middle-aged man

of us understood what he was trying to say. After a while, Tabitha gasped.

any closer to home. We’d even gone so far that we were in

owner of the cottage seemed to further mistake our intentions. He waved

woman, approximately sixteen years of age, ran out of the cottage just then.

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

few hesitant motions

understood. He did, however, let us into his

clay walls were caked with soot, doubtless from the fire that was

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

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 turned to grime at

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

man took out two bowls from a cabinet and placed them

language barrier, the man continued to gesture

food was steeped

I think it’s supposed to be a starting dish. Shall we try it?” Tabitha exclaimed rather adventurously. She had more of an appetite

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

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

in a corner. They gazed

communicate with them. Along with her hand signals, she deliberately

father and daughter came to understand that we were here to borrow a

however, by what exactly a

villagers. Until then, we’d have to take shelter in this battered cottage. Compared to spending a night out in the open mountains, however, this was considered

blearily woke the next morning, the man was

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

she’d beam a smile in our direction. It was as if she was eagerly trying to transmit her simple joy

and wealth, doesn’t it?” Tabitha mused, looking rather wistful. She looked almost like

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

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

the philosophical tendencies she’d been harboring all this way. We’d

temple, groaning, “Can we take a break from

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

but smiles and

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our desperation to head home, Nora hauled me along into the village in our hunt for a

twenty-first century! Surely someone must have a phone around here! we thought. When we knocked on the door of

miming remained futile. We departed after a

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

that will 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

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

touch with the local police,

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

on the mountain. Who knows if there’s even a functional police station around here? I

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

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

one of the villager’s yards under the pretense of borrowing something.

returned with their arms laden with fruit, fully expecting the

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 foreigners, the villager had assumed

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