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.

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

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

stopped, satisfied, when the snake had been utterly reduced

gulped, then quickly said, “Let’s go. It’s getting late, and we

quite a lot of mushrooms. The forested mountain was ancient and teeming with rich,

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

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

rate of trekking

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

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

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

attempts but gave up after a while. Laurel was resigned

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

maintained a clear head. She’d sensibly warned,

terrified at the thought 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,”

continued throwing fruits down. Laurel

been fumbling with her things ever since we

shrugged in

Let’s be quick! Once we’re done picking the fruits, we should hurry along,”

time discussing trivial matters? These girls can be so flippant about things sometimes!

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

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

a side of mushrooms, we considered ourselves rather

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

seemed to be the only viable solution for now. The other girls found Nora’s proposal agreeable and continued

We’ll be home soon,” we urged each

crossed another peak and indeed saw flares of light ahead of us

take myself out for a good foie gras and a seafood buffet. Besides, I’ll

in. “I’ll take everyone out to high

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

make it out of here alive. Let’s focus on

rather dampened our cheeriness. Exchanging glances, the rest of us decided to

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we indeed get to go home this time around, what

question lingered in my mind as I continued

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

seemed taken by surprise. Then she curiously pressed, “Is it somebody you’re in love

her a faint smile but

in quite a rural area of the mountains, and perhaps due to its inaccessibility, there didn’t

in the dark, there were probably thirty to forty households

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

into the yard

dog was leashed to a rope. It strained against its

had evidently heard the ruckus. Out stepped

us understood what he was trying to say. After a while, Tabitha gasped. “We might

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

seemed to further mistake our intentions. He waved his axe at us threateningly

ran out of the cottage just then. She tugged at the man’s

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

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

understood. He did,

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

The lamp burned dimly at a bare fifty watts, probably to save

corner. The roof of the cottage was, in fact, a tent stitched together out of gunny sacks. There was

dirt that covered the tent looked sure

out two bowls from a cabinet and placed them

man continued to gesture

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

a starting dish. Shall we try it?” Tabitha exclaimed rather adventurously. She had more of

flavor of the pickled onions, spicy with a

a few days since we’d really tasted anything. The pickled onions thus

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

Nora persisted in her attempts to communicate with them. Along with

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

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 take shelter in this battered cottage. Compared to spending a night

the man was already up in the tree in his

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

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

doesn’t it?” Tabitha mused, looking rather

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

really. I was reflecting on this whole turn of events, and I feel as if I’ve been enlightened. How we live our lives should be entirely up

with the philosophical tendencies she’d been harboring all this way. We’d finally managed to pique her

“Can we take a break from philosophy

into the yard and began picking

smiles and gestures

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me along into the village in our

the door of the next cottage, however, Nora’s hand signals

remained futile. We departed

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 to

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

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

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

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

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

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

enthusiastic. “Leave it to us!”

up to one of the villager’s yards under the pretense

laden with fruit, fully expecting the police

The owner of the house had been enraged at the two girls’ theft. However, on account of Nora

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