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, then brought it

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

only stopped, satisfied, when the snake had been

a sickly pale. Nora gulped, then quickly said,

lot of mushrooms. The forested mountain was ancient and

drink. No matter what else

journey, we spotted a red fruit, resembling an

those 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

a good 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 mushrooms along the way and was no longer as concerned about getting food as the rest

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

but gave up after a while. Laurel was resigned to waiting on the

She greedily ate any fruits she’d managed to pluck, blissfully

clear head. She’d sensibly

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 continued

“What is that woman doing? She’s been fumbling with her things ever since we got here! Did killing that snake mess with her

merely shrugged in

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

matters? These girls can be so flippant about things sometimes! I fumed to

wiped out the entire tree. We even took the few that

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

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

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

viable solution for now. The other girls found

be home soon,” we urged each other.

we crossed another peak and indeed saw flares

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

in. “I’ll take everyone out to high tea, then. My

to eat some steak. I feel as if I could eat a whole cow,” Nora declared exaggeratedly, popping the rest of

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

cheeriness. Exchanging glances, the rest of us decided to pay no

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to go home this time around, what would

question lingered in my mind as I continued trudging forward, deep in

want to see the person I miss most,

Then she curiously pressed,

gave her a faint

at was located in quite a rural area of the mountains, and perhaps due to

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

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

into the yard and

Fortunately, the dog was leashed to a rope. It strained against its tether,

had evidently heard the ruckus. Out stepped

say. After a while, Tabitha gasped. “We

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

all into disarray. Upon seeing our confused faces, the owner of the cottage seemed to further mistake our intentions.

sixteen years of age, ran out of

a while. He then grew

a few hesitant motions with her hands in

understood. He did, however, let

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

lamp

fact, a tent stitched together out of gunny sacks. There was dust everywhere. It turned

that covered the tent looked sure

two bowls from

barrier, the man continued to gesture

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

try it?” Tabitha exclaimed rather adventurously.

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

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

squatted in a corner. They gazed at us

communicate with them. Along with

both father and daughter came to understand that we were here to

however, by what

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 out in the open mountains, however,

blearily woke the next morning, the man was

stood beneath the tree with a basket, picking up the soft fruits he’d accidentally let tumble

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

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

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

I’ve been enlightened. How we

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

groaning, “Can we take a break from philosophy for

ignored Nora. She marched straight out into the yard and began picking up fruits

still couldn’t communicate with words but smiles

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head home, Nora hauled me along into the

Surely someone must have a phone around here! we thought. When we knocked on the

at miming remained futile. We departed after a good while,

by side, disconsolate. Laurel was the first to speak. “If we can’t get any results here, we should try moving further in.

much longer the road up ahead is. If we aren’t careful, we

so bad about getting locked up?” Tessa 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 be our

police, they may be able to send us home. We won’t have to wander around

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 do to capture

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

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

“Leave it to

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

their arms laden with fruit, fully expecting the police to

of the villager. The owner of 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 food and

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