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.

that Tabitha had flung away earlier, then brought it crashing

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

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

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

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

and drink. No matter what else

day’s journey, we spotted a red fruit, resembling an apple,

panted. The near-constant rate of trekking had

quickly scaled the tree and 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

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

shot. Being rather plump and short, however,

after a while. Laurel was resigned to waiting on the ground below,

ate any fruits she’d managed to pluck,

however, maintained a clear head. She’d sensibly warned,

another huge bite of the apple in her

her head helplessly, then continued throwing fruits down. Laurel

down, Nora observed, “What is that woman doing? She’s been fumbling with her things ever since we got here! Did killing

shrugged in

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

girls can be so flippant about

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

that snake that we’d killed was the only aggressive one we encountered. The rest of the way, though bumpy, contained nothing

fruits, and a

insisting, “Let’s keep going forward. I saw a couple of manmade paths along the trail, which means there must be a

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

be home soon,” we urged each

peak and indeed saw flares

rejoiced. As Tabitha strode forward, 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

everyone

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

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

glances, the rest of

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

I want? That question lingered in my mind as I continued trudging forward,

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

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

gave her a faint smile but declined to

we’d arrived at was located in quite a rural area of the mountains,

lamps we’d counted shining in the dark, there were

hunker down for the night,” Nora suggested, already making her way towards

Woof!” A dog suddenly rushed out into the yard and began sounding

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

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

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

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

foreign tongue threw us all into disarray. Upon seeing our confused faces, the owner of the cottage seemed to

approximately sixteen years of age, ran out of the cottage just then.

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

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

He did, however, let us into his

stripped down within. Its clay walls were caked with soot, doubtless from the fire

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

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

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

man took out two bowls from a cabinet and

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

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

we try it?” Tabitha exclaimed rather adventurously. She had more of an appetite than the rest of us for more exotic

flavor of the pickled onions, spicy with

a few days since we’d really tasted

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

them. Along with her hand

worked. Somehow, both father and daughter came to understand that we were here

however, by what exactly

until the next day for the man to seek help from his fellow villagers. Until then, we’d have to take

was already up in the tree in his yard plucking

the tree with a basket, picking up the soft fruits he’d

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

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

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

if I’ve been

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

her temple, groaning, “Can we take a break from philosophy

the yard and began picking up fruits with

but smiles and gestures seemed to suffice

love, never say

hauled me along into the village in our hunt for a

we knocked on the

at miming 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 the city. We may even meet some

up ahead is. If we aren’t careful, we may be mistaken for thieves and locked up,” Nora countered. She plopped

up?” Tessa asked thoughtfully. “Surely, the local policeman knows a little more than

the local police, they may be able to send us home. We

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

mountain. Who knows if there’s even a

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

enthusiastic. “Leave it

yards under the pretense of borrowing something. They then

arms laden with fruit, fully

the kindness 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,

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