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.

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

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

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

then quickly

our way forward, we managed to pick quite a lot of mushrooms. The forested mountain was ancient and teeming

occasional spring, we’d settle down to eat and drink. No matter what else happened to us, at least we

red fruit, resembling an apple,

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

wild. It’s not very sweet, but it’s edible.

way off fiddling with her own belongings. She’d eaten quite a lot of mushrooms along the way and was no

short, however, climbing

was resigned

fruits she’d managed to pluck, blissfully

She’d sensibly warned,

took another huge bite of the apple in her hand. “That made me nervous! Let me eat another apple to

fruits down. Laurel

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

merely shrugged

you talking about? Let’s be quick! Once we’re

are they wasting time discussing trivial matters? These girls can be so flippant about things sometimes! I fumed

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

snake that we’d killed was the only aggressive one we encountered. The rest of the way, though bumpy,

supply of water, fruits, and a side of mushrooms, we considered

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

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

home soon,” we

saw flares of light ahead

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

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

declared exaggeratedly, popping the rest of the stash she’d picked

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

cheeriness. Exchanging glances, the rest

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indeed get to go home this time around, what would you want

I want? That question lingered in my mind

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

Then she curiously pressed, “Is

faint smile but declined

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

in the dark, there were probably thirty to forty households

Nora suggested, already making her way towards the

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

Fortunately, the dog was leashed to

evidently heard the ruckus. Out stepped

to say. After a while, Tabitha gasped. “We might have unknowingly crossed

any closer to home. We’d even gone

owner of the cottage seemed to further mistake our intentions. He waved his axe at us threateningly in a bid

ran out of the cottage just

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

made a few hesitant motions with her hands

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

and stripped down within. Its clay walls were caked

lamp hung from the ceiling, the sort that farming villages would have used decades ago. The lamp burned dimly at a bare fifty

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

the

two bowls from a cabinet and placed them before

the language barrier, the man continued to gesture furiously.

was steeped in chili. Nora recoiled

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

rather gratefully. The flavor of the pickled onions, spicy with a hint of sourness, was quite

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

man and his daughter squatted in a corner. They

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

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

by what exactly a

run 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

man was

basket, picking up the soft fruits he’d

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

wealth, doesn’t it?” Tabitha mused, looking rather wistful. She looked almost like a child with

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

I’ve been enlightened. How we live

Tessa quipped. This discussion aligned with the philosophical tendencies she’d been harboring all

massaged her temple, groaning, “Can we take

yard and began picking up fruits with the young

but 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

we thought. When we knocked on the door of the next cottage, however,

futile. We departed after

better. We returned to find them sitting side 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

we aren’t careful,

asked thoughtfully. “Surely, the local policeman knows a little more than the average villager. If we manage to explain our situation to

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

cheered up instantly at the thought and launching into a feverish discussion of

Who knows if there’s

conviction that she shouldn’t participate in any criminal act, regardless of

enthusiastic. “Leave it to us!”

the villager’s yards under the pretense of borrowing

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

of 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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