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.

Tabitha had flung away earlier, then brought it crashing

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

when the snake had been

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

our way forward, we managed to pick quite a lot of mushrooms. The

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

journey, we spotted a red fruit, resembling an apple, growing

near-constant rate of trekking had left her face flushed

not very sweet, but it’s edible. We can pick them

however, sat a little way off fiddling with her own belongings. She’d eaten quite a lot of mushrooms along the way

rather plump and short, however, climbing naturally posed a

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

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

clear head. She’d sensibly warned,

She wildly surveyed her surroundings, then took another huge bite of the apple in her

throwing fruits down. Laurel continued picking them up

been fumbling

merely shrugged

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

trivial matters? These girls can be so

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

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

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

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

viable solution for now. The other girls found Nora’s proposal agreeable and continued their walk with renewed

get to the village quickly. We’ll be home soon,” we urged each other. Our

indeed saw flares

out loud, “When I get home, I’ll surely take myself out for a good foie gras

in. “I’ll take everyone

eat a whole cow,” Nora declared exaggeratedly, popping

to make it out

Exchanging glances, the rest of us

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

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

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

taken by surprise. Then she curiously pressed, “Is it somebody you’re in love

faint smile but declined to

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

the dark, there were

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

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

Fortunately, the dog was leashed to a rope. It

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

spoke, but none of us understood what he was trying to say. After a while, Tabitha gasped. “We might have unknowingly crossed

brought us any closer to home. We’d

tongue 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

years of age, ran out of the

conferred with the man for a while. He then grew

a few hesitant

did, however,

walls were caked

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

was, in fact, a tent stitched together out of gunny sacks. There was dust everywhere.

that covered the tent looked sure

man took out two bowls from a cabinet and placed them

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

the bowls in front of us. The food was steeped in chili. Nora recoiled ever

Shall we try it?” Tabitha exclaimed rather adventurously. She had more of an appetite than

rather gratefully. The flavor of the pickled onions,

really tasted anything. The pickled

They gazed at us with curiosity and awe, mixed with a tinge

in her attempts to communicate with them. Along with

daughter came to understand that we were here to

stumped, however, by what

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

was already up

daughter stood beneath the tree with a basket, picking up the soft fruits he’d accidentally let

some fruit, she’d beam a smile in our direction. It was as

and wealth, doesn’t it?” Tabitha mused, looking rather

frame. “Why? Are you thinking of something sad?” she quizzed,

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

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

temple, groaning, “Can we take a break from

into the yard and began picking up fruits

couldn’t communicate with words but smiles and gestures seemed to suffice for

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Nora hauled me along into the

someone must have a phone around here! we thought. When we knocked on the door of the next cottage, however,

futile. We departed after

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

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

more than the average villager. If we manage

touch with the local police, they may

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

knows if there’s even a functional

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

were enthusiastic. “Leave

the villager’s yards under the pretense of borrowing something. They

with their arms laden with fruit, fully expecting the

house had been enraged at the two girls’ theft. However,

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