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,

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

the snake had been utterly reduced to bits

pale. Nora gulped, then quickly said, “Let’s go. It’s getting late,

to pick quite a lot of mushrooms. The forested mountain was ancient and teeming

down to eat and drink. No matter what else happened

fruit, resembling an apple, growing on a tree a

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

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

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 as the rest of us

Being rather plump and short,

but gave up after a while. Laurel was resigned to

ate any fruits she’d managed to pluck, blissfully indulging

clear head. She’d sensibly warned, “Look out for

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

fruits down. Laurel continued picking them

been fumbling with her things ever since we got

shrugged in

the two of you talking about? Let’s be quick! Once we’re done

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

entire tree. We even took the few

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

ample supply of water, fruits, and a side of mushrooms, we considered

night, however. Nora grew visibly anxious, insisting, “Let’s keep going forward. I saw a couple of manmade paths along the trail, which

for now. The other girls found Nora’s

the village quickly. We’ll be home

another peak and indeed saw flares

home, I’ll surely take myself out for a good foie

in. “I’ll take everyone out to high

feel as if I could eat a whole cow,” Nora declared exaggeratedly, popping the rest of the stash she’d picked into her mouth. Nora was a rather lovely girl, particularly when she

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

our cheeriness. Exchanging glances, the rest of us

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queried, “Scarlett, if we indeed get to go home this time around, what would you want

That question lingered in my mind as I continued

want to see the person I miss most, give

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

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

counted shining in the dark, there were probably thirty to forty

hunker down for the night,” Nora suggested, already making

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

dog was leashed to a rope. It

ruckus. Out stepped a middle-aged man

what he was trying to say. After a

arduous journey we’d made, crossing peak after peak, hadn’t brought us any closer to home. We’d even gone so far that

foreign tongue threw us all into disarray. Upon seeing our confused faces, the owner of the cottage seemed to further mistake our intentions. He waved his axe at us threateningly in a bid

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

for a while. He then grew noticeably calmer and lowered the

gestured. Uncomprehendingly, Tabitha made a few

tell if he understood. He did, however, let us into his

down within. Its clay walls were caked with

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

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

that covered the tent looked

two bowls from a

the language barrier, the man continued to gesture furiously. He seemed to be inviting us to

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

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

gratefully. The flavor of the pickled onions, spicy with a hint of sourness, was

really tasted anything. The

corner. They

attempts to communicate with them. Along with her hand signals,

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

were stumped, however, by what exactly a phone

his fellow villagers. Until then, we’d have to take shelter in this battered cottage. Compared to spending a night out in the

blearily woke the next morning, the man was already up in the tree in

picking up the soft fruits he’d accidentally let

beam a smile in our direction. It was as if she was eagerly trying to transmit

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

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

whole turn of events, and I feel as if I’ve been enlightened. How we live our lives should be entirely

discussion aligned 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 for

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

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

never say

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

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

miming remained futile. We departed after

“If we can’t get any results here, we should try moving further in. Perhaps we’ll get to the

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

more than

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

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

if there’s even a functional police station around here? I

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

enthusiastic. “Leave

Nora and Tabitha walked boldly up to one of the villager’s yards under the pretense of borrowing something. They then grabbed a

with their arms laden with fruit, fully expecting the police to

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 girls were foraging for

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