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.

Tabitha had flung away earlier, then brought

snake seemed to be caught in a daze. Without

snake had been

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

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

down to eat and drink. No matter what else happened to us, at least we knew we wouldn’t

half a day’s journey, we spotted a red fruit, resembling

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

wild. It’s not very sweet, but it’s edible. We can pick them all

with her own belongings. She’d eaten quite a lot of mushrooms along the way and was no longer

and short,

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

leisurely on the branches. She greedily ate any fruits she’d managed to pluck, blissfully indulging in the fruits of

clear head. She’d

took another huge bite of the apple in her

her head helplessly, then continued throwing fruits down. Laurel

Looking down, Nora observed, “What is that woman doing? She’s been fumbling with her things

shrugged

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

wasting time discussing trivial matters? These girls can be so flippant about things sometimes! I fumed to

besides, we’d wiped out the entire tree. We even took the few that weren’t yet ripe to be consumed later

snake that we’d killed was the only aggressive one we encountered. The rest

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

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. If we

solution for now. The other girls found Nora’s proposal agreeable and continued their walk with renewed

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

peak and indeed saw flares

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 that I’ve been eyeing for the

“I’ll take everyone out to high

whole cow,” Nora declared exaggeratedly, popping the rest of the stash she’d picked into her mouth.

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

rest of us decided to pay no

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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

did I want? That question lingered in my mind as I

“I want to see the person I miss most, give him

taken by surprise. Then she curiously pressed, “Is it somebody

faint smile

located in quite a rural area of the mountains, and perhaps

the dark, there were probably

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

suddenly rushed out into the yard and began sounding the alert

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

the ruckus.

none of us understood what he was trying to say. After a while, Tabitha gasped.

us any closer to home. We’d even

of the cottage seemed to further mistake our intentions. He waved his axe at

sixteen years of age, ran out

the man for a while. He then grew noticeably

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

if he understood. He did, however,

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

used decades ago. The lamp burned dimly at a

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 damp spots where rainwater had seeped

dirt that covered the tent looked sure to

man took out two bowls from a cabinet

man continued to gesture furiously. He seemed to

us. The food was steeped in chili.

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

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

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

corner. They gazed at us with curiosity and awe, mixed with a

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

daughter came to understand that we were here to borrow a device to contact

were stumped, however, by

until the next day for 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 in the open mountains, however, this was considered

man was already up in the tree in his

up the soft fruits he’d accidentally let

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

link between happiness and wealth, doesn’t it?” Tabitha mused, looking rather wistful. She

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

was reflecting on this whole turn of events, and I feel as if I’ve been enlightened. How we live our

tendencies she’d been harboring all this way. We’d finally managed

we take a

out into the yard and began picking up fruits with the young

smiles

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head home, Nora hauled me along into the village in

someone must have a phone around here! we thought. When we knocked on the door of the next

best efforts at miming remained futile. We departed after

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

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 for thieves and locked up,”

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

in touch with the local police, they may be able to send us

cheered up instantly at the thought and launching into a feverish discussion

Who knows if there’s even a functional police

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

were enthusiastic. “Leave it to

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

fruit, fully expecting the police to be hot on

enraged at the two girls’ theft. However, on account of Nora and Tabitha being foreigners,

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