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.

away earlier, then brought it crashing firmly

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

Tessa only stopped, satisfied, when the snake had been utterly reduced to bits

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

to pick quite a lot of mushrooms. The forested mountain

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

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

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

fiddling with her own belongings. She’d eaten quite a lot of mushrooms along the way

shot. Being rather plump and short, however,

gave up after a while. Laurel was resigned

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

however, maintained a clear head. She’d

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

her head helplessly, then continued throwing fruits down. Laurel continued picking them up

at the side. Looking down, Nora observed, “What is that woman doing? She’s been fumbling with her things ever since we got here! Did killing that snake mess with her

shrugged in

about? 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

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

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

supply of water, fruits, and a side of mushrooms,

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. If we walk on, we’ll surely meet someone! We’ll be able to call for

other girls found Nora’s proposal agreeable and

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

our steps, we crossed another peak and indeed saw flares of light ahead

she fantasized out loud, “When 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 longest

joined in. “I’ll take everyone out

whole cow,” Nora declared exaggeratedly, popping the rest

however, remarked rather evenly, “We’re lucky to make it

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

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

lingered in my mind as I

After a moment’s pause, I concluded, “I want to see the person

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

gave her a faint smile but declined

at was located in quite a rural area of the mountains, and perhaps due to its inaccessibility, there didn’t seem to be

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

suggested, already making her way towards

rushed out into the yard and began sounding the alert at

leashed

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

spoke, but none of us understood what he was trying to say. After a while,

brought us any

the cottage seemed to further mistake our intentions. He waved his axe at us threateningly in a bid

woman, approximately sixteen years of age, ran out of

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

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

he understood. He did, however, let us into

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

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

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 damp spots where rainwater had seeped

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

took out two bowls from a cabinet and placed them before

language barrier, the man continued to gesture

steeped in chili. Nora

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

we dug in rather gratefully. The flavor of the

since we’d really tasted anything. The pickled

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

Along with her hand signals, she deliberately spoke a few basic words,

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

by what exactly a phone

another roadblock. We 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

morning, the man was already up

up

in our direction. It was

the link between happiness and wealth, doesn’t it?” Tabitha mused,

leaning against the door frame. “Why? Are you thinking of

of events, and I feel as if I’ve been enlightened.

This discussion aligned with the philosophical tendencies she’d been harboring all this way. We’d

massaged her temple, groaning, “Can we take a

marched straight out into the yard

still couldn’t communicate with words but smiles and gestures seemed to

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hauled me along into the village in our hunt

knocked on the door of the next cottage, however, Nora’s hand signals asking for a

miming remained futile. We departed after

better. We returned to find 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 to

the road up ahead is. If we aren’t careful, we may be mistaken for thieves and locked up,” Nora countered. She plopped down onto the floor with a

local policeman knows a little more than the average villager. If we manage to explain our situation to

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

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

the mountain. Who knows if there’s even a functional police station around

any criminal act, regardless of its motive. She slipped off before our

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

evening, Nora and Tabitha walked boldly up to one of the villager’s yards under the pretense

arms laden with fruit, fully expecting the

two girls’ theft. However, on account

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