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.

flung away earlier, then

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

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

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

we managed to pick quite a lot of mushrooms. The forested mountain was ancient and

spring, we’d settle down to eat and drink. No matter what else happened to us, at least we knew we wouldn’t go

a red fruit, resembling an apple, growing on a tree a few steps

near-constant rate of trekking had left her face flushed

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 along

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

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

a few attempts but gave up after a while. Laurel was resigned to waiting on the ground below, picking up the fruits

leisurely on the branches. She greedily ate any fruits she’d managed to pluck, blissfully

clear head. She’d sensibly warned, “Look out for

snake. She wildly surveyed her surroundings, then took another huge bite of the apple in her hand. “That made me nervous! Let me eat another apple to calm my

throwing fruits down. Laurel continued picking them up in her ungainly

doing? She’s been fumbling with her things ever since we got

shrugged

be quick! Once

discussing trivial matters? These girls can be so flippant

besides, we’d wiped out the entire tree.

the only aggressive one we encountered. The

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

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

for now. The other girls found Nora’s proposal agreeable and continued

be home soon,” we urged each other. Our spirits

another peak and indeed saw flares of light

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 eyeing

in. “I’ll take everyone out to

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

rather evenly, “We’re lucky to make it out of

cool statement rather dampened our cheeriness. Exchanging glances, the rest of us decided to pay no heed to Tessa’s

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indeed get to go home this time

my mind as I continued trudging forward, deep in

craving. After a moment’s pause, I concluded, “I want to see the person I miss

by surprise. Then she curiously pressed, “Is it

her a faint smile

reached saw signs of human life. The village we’d arrived at was located in quite

dark, there were probably thirty to

suggested, already making her way towards the door of

suddenly rushed out into the yard and began sounding the alert at our

leashed to a rope. It strained against its

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

say. After a while, Tabitha

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

to further mistake our intentions. He

a young woman, approximately sixteen years of age, ran out of the

conferred with the man for a while. He then grew noticeably calmer

Tabitha made a few hesitant

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

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

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

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

dirt that covered the

took out two bowls from a cabinet and

gesture furiously. He seemed to

The food was steeped in chili. Nora recoiled ever so slightly, asking, “What

to be a starting dish. Shall we try it?” Tabitha exclaimed rather adventurously. She had more of an appetite than the rest of us

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

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

They gazed at us with curiosity and

to communicate with them. Along with her

to understand that we were here to

were stumped, however, by what exactly a

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,

was already up in the tree

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

a smile in our direction. It was as if she was eagerly trying to

rethink the link between happiness and wealth, doesn’t it?” Tabitha mused, looking rather wistful. She looked almost like a

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

on this whole turn of events, and I feel as if I’ve been enlightened. How we live our lives should be entirely up to us. It doesn’t matter what

This discussion aligned with the philosophical tendencies she’d been

“Can we take a break

marched straight out into the yard and

with words but smiles and gestures seemed

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hauled me along into the village in our hunt

we knocked on the door of

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

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

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

so bad about getting locked up?” Tessa asked thoughtfully. “Surely, the local policeman knows a little more than the average

excitement. “If we get in touch with the local police, they may be able to send us

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

the mountain. Who knows if there’s even a functional

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

were enthusiastic. “Leave it

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

laden with fruit, fully expecting the

had been enraged at the two girls’ theft. However, on account of Nora and Tabitha being foreigners,

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