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.

up the stone that Tabitha had flung away earlier, then brought it crashing

to be caught in a daze. Without hesitation, Tessa vehemently crushed it with a few

snake had been utterly reduced to bits

then quickly said, “Let’s go. It’s getting late, and we

to pick quite a lot

we stumbled upon the occasional spring, we’d settle down to eat and drink. No matter what else

half a day’s journey, we spotted a red fruit, resembling an apple, growing on a tree a

Nora panted. The near-constant rate of trekking

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 along for

fiddling with her own belongings. She’d eaten quite a lot of mushrooms along the way and was no longer as concerned about getting

short, however, climbing

was resigned to

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

She’d sensibly

huge bite of the

head helplessly, then continued throwing fruits down. Laurel continued picking

She’s been fumbling with her things ever since we got here! Did killing that

merely shrugged

Once we’re done

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

ensure that we had enough and a little more besides, we’d wiped out the entire tree. We even took the few that weren’t yet ripe to be consumed later on our

the only aggressive one we encountered. The rest of the way, though

of water, fruits, and a side

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

other girls found Nora’s proposal agreeable and

home soon,”

and indeed saw flares of light

strode forward, she fantasized out loud, “When I get home, I’ll surely take myself out for a good foie gras and a

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

exaggeratedly, popping the rest of the stash she’d picked into her mouth. Nora was a rather lovely girl, particularly when she

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

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

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we indeed get to go home

in my mind as I continued trudging forward, deep

wasn’t any food I was especially craving. After a moment’s pause, I concluded, “I want to see the person I miss most, give him a hug, and apologize to him

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

gave her a faint smile but

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

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

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

dog suddenly rushed out into the yard and began

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

of the cottage had evidently heard the ruckus. Out

of us understood what he was trying to say. After a while,

brought us any closer to home. We’d even gone so far that

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 to chase us

ran out of the cottage just then. She tugged at

man for a while. He then grew noticeably calmer and

man then turned toward us and gestured. Uncomprehendingly, Tabitha made a few

couldn’t tell if he understood. He did, however, let

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

farming villages would have used decades ago. The lamp burned dimly at a bare fifty watts,

some bowls and utensils in 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 turned to grime at damp

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

man took out two bowls from a cabinet and placed them before

to gesture

steeped in

to be a starting dish. Shall we try it?” Tabitha exclaimed rather

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

a few days since we’d really tasted anything. The pickled onions thus thoroughly

a corner. They

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

father and daughter came to understand that

were stumped, however, by what exactly

into 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, this was considered

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

up the soft fruits he’d accidentally

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

it?” Tabitha mused, looking rather wistful.

her arms, leaning against the door frame. “Why? Are you thinking of something

was reflecting on this whole turn of events, and I feel as if I’ve been enlightened. How we live our

with the philosophical tendencies she’d been harboring all this

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

yard and began picking up fruits with

smiles and gestures seemed to

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

around here! we thought. When we knocked on the door of the next cottage, however, Nora’s hand signals

efforts at miming remained futile. We departed

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

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

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

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

that this 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 the attention of the local

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

in any criminal act, regardless of its motive.

“Leave

one of the villager’s yards under the pretense of borrowing something. They then grabbed a

with their arms laden with fruit, fully

two girls’ theft. However, on account of Nora and Tabitha being foreigners, the villager had assumed that both girls were

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