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

the snake seemed to be caught in a daze. Without hesitation, Tessa vehemently crushed it with

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

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

quite a lot of mushrooms. The

settle down to eat and drink. No matter what else happened to us, at

red fruit, resembling an apple,

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

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

tree after Tabitha. Tessa, however, sat a little way off fiddling with her own belongings. She’d eaten

plump and short, however, climbing naturally posed a rather insurmountable

was resigned to waiting on the ground

any fruits she’d managed to pluck, blissfully indulging

head. She’d sensibly warned, “Look out

snake. She wildly surveyed her surroundings, then took another huge bite of the

fruits down. Laurel continued picking them

“What is that woman doing? She’s been fumbling with her things ever since

shrugged

quick! Once we’re done picking the fruits, we should

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

entire tree. We even took the few that

The rest of the way, though

of water, fruits, and a side of mushrooms, we considered ourselves rather fortunate

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

seemed to be the only viable solution for now. The other girls found

quickly. We’ll be home soon,” we urged each other.

crossed another peak and indeed saw flares of light ahead of

take myself out for a good foie gras and a seafood buffet. Besides, I’ll treat myself to some cosmetic products that

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

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 girl, particularly when

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

cool statement rather dampened our cheeriness. Exchanging glances, the rest of us

love, never say

we indeed get to go

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

a moment’s pause, I concluded, “I want

Then she curiously pressed,

a faint smile

we 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 inaccessibility, there didn’t seem to

we’d counted shining in the dark, there were probably thirty to forty households

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

rushed out into the yard and

clung to each other, terrified. Fortunately, the dog was leashed to a rope. It

the cottage had evidently heard the ruckus. Out stepped

to say. After a while, Tabitha

peak after peak, hadn’t brought us any closer to home. We’d even gone so far that we were in another

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

ran out of the

a while. He

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

tell if he understood. He did, however,

dismal sight and stripped down within. Its clay walls were caked with soot, doubtless from

ceiling, the sort that farming villages would have used decades ago. The lamp burned dimly at 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

dirt that covered the tent looked

out two bowls from a cabinet and placed them

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

steeped in

exclaimed rather adventurously. She had more of an appetite than the rest of us for more

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

days since we’d really tasted anything. The pickled

the man and his daughter squatted in a corner. They gazed at

them. Along with her hand signals, she deliberately spoke

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

by what exactly a

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

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

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

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

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

door frame. “Why? Are you thinking of something sad?”

feel as if I’ve been enlightened. How we live our lives should

destined!” Tessa quipped. This discussion aligned with the philosophical tendencies she’d been harboring all this way.

temple, groaning, “Can we

the yard and began

words but smiles

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hauled me along into the village in our hunt

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 only

miming remained futile. We departed after

find them sitting side by side, disconsolate. Laurel was the first to speak. “If we can’t

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

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

leaped to her feet in excitement. “If we get in touch with the local police, they may

the thought and launching into a feverish

knows if there’s even

that she shouldn’t participate in any criminal act,

and Tabitha, however, were enthusiastic. “Leave

up to one of the villager’s yards under the pretense of borrowing something. They then grabbed a bundle of items and sprinted

arms laden with fruit, fully expecting the

villager. The owner of the house had been enraged at the two girls’ theft. However, on account

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