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.

had flung away earlier,

maimed; the snake seemed to be caught in a daze. Without hesitation, Tessa vehemently

snake had been utterly reduced

turned a sickly pale. Nora gulped, then

we slowly forged our way forward, we managed to pick quite a lot of mushrooms. The forested

to eat and drink. No

fruit, resembling an apple, growing on

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

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

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

gave it her best shot. Being rather plump and short, however, climbing naturally posed a rather

up after a while. Laurel was resigned to

ate any fruits she’d managed to

a clear head. She’d

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

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

remained aloof at the side. Looking down, Nora observed, “What is that woman doing? She’s been fumbling

shrugged in

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

they wasting time discussing trivial matters? These girls can be so flippant about things

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

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

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

be home soon,” we urged each other. Our spirits lifted at the

indeed saw flares of light ahead of us

for a good

take everyone

some steak. I 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

“We’re lucky to make it out of here

dampened 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

in my mind as I continued trudging forward,

food I was especially craving. After a moment’s pause, I concluded, “I want to see the person I miss most, give

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

gave her a faint smile

finally reached saw signs of human life. The village we’d arrived at was located in quite a rural area of the mountains, and perhaps due to its

the number of lamps we’d counted shining in the dark, there were probably thirty to forty

suggested, already making her way towards the door of the

rushed out into the yard

other, terrified. Fortunately, the dog was leashed to a rope. It strained against

cottage had evidently heard the ruckus. Out stepped a middle-aged man

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

froze. The arduous journey we’d made, crossing peak after peak, hadn’t brought us any closer to

to

out of the cottage just then.

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

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

he understood. He did,

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

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

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

small heaps of blackened dirt that covered the tent looked sure

man took out two bowls from a cabinet

continued to gesture furiously. He

us. The food was steeped in

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

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

we’d really tasted

daughter squatted in a corner. They gazed

her attempts to communicate with them. Along with her hand signals, she deliberately spoke a few basic words,

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

by what exactly

man to seek help from his fellow villagers. Until then,

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

the tree with a basket, picking up the soft

fruit, she’d beam a smile in our direction.

and wealth, doesn’t it?” Tabitha mused, looking rather wistful.

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

feel as if I’ve been

destined!” Tessa quipped. This discussion aligned with the philosophical tendencies

groaning, “Can we take

out into the yard and began picking

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

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to head home, Nora hauled me along into the

twenty-first century! Surely someone must have a phone around here! we thought. When we knocked on the door of the next cottage, however, Nora’s hand signals asking for a phone

remained futile.

We returned to find them sitting side by side, disconsolate. Laurel was the first to speak. “If we

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,” Nora countered. She plopped down onto the floor with a sigh, looking

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

get in touch with the local police, they may be

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

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

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

however, were enthusiastic. “Leave it

yards under the pretense of borrowing something. They

them returned with their arms laden with fruit, fully expecting the police to be hot on their

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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