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.

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

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

splattered everywhere. Tessa only stopped, satisfied, when the snake had been utterly

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

forward, we managed to pick quite a lot

settle down to eat and drink. No

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

The near-constant rate of trekking had left

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

We quickly ascended the tree after 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 about

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

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

fruits she’d

She’d sensibly warned,

of having to face another snake. She wildly surveyed her surroundings, then took another huge bite

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

remained aloof at the side. Looking down, Nora observed, “What is that woman doing? She’s been fumbling with her things ever since

shrugged

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

These girls can be so flippant about things sometimes! I fumed to

ensure that we had enough and a little more besides, we’d wiped out the entire tree. We

The rest of the

supply of water, fruits, and a side

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

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

the village quickly. We’ll be home soon,” we

our steps, we crossed another peak and indeed saw flares of light ahead of us in the

good foie gras and a seafood buffet. Besides,

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

a whole cow,” Nora declared exaggeratedly, popping the rest of the stash she’d picked into her mouth. Nora was a rather

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

rather dampened our cheeriness. Exchanging glances, the rest of

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and queried, “Scarlett, if we indeed get to go home this time around, what would

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

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

by surprise. Then she curiously pressed, “Is it

her a faint smile but declined

at was located in quite a rural area of the

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

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

the yard and began sounding the alert at

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

cottage had evidently heard the ruckus.

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

we’d made, crossing peak after peak, hadn’t brought us any closer to

foreign 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

age, ran out of

the man for a while. He then grew noticeably calmer and lowered the axe in his

Tabitha made a few hesitant motions with her hands in return, trying to convey

He did, however,

cottage we entered was a dismal sight and stripped down within. Its clay walls were

decades ago. The lamp burned dimly at a bare fifty watts, probably

cottage was, in fact, a tent stitched together out of gunny sacks. There was dust everywhere. It turned to grime at damp spots where rainwater had

heaps of blackened dirt that covered the tent looked sure

two bowls from a cabinet and placed them

barrier, the man continued to gesture

bowls in front of us. The food was steeped in chili. Nora recoiled ever so slightly, asking, “What dish is

Tabitha exclaimed rather adventurously.

a whole day, we dug in 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 thoroughly

in a corner. They gazed at us with curiosity and awe, mixed with a tinge of

Along with

both father and daughter came to understand that

were stumped, however, by

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

woke the next morning, the man was already up in

basket, picking up the soft

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

Tabitha mused, looking rather wistful. She looked almost like a

frame. “Why? Are

“Not really. I was reflecting on this whole turn of events, and I feel as if I’ve been enlightened. How we live our lives should be entirely

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

temple, groaning, “Can we take a break from

marched straight out into the yard and began picking up

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

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hauled me along into the village in our hunt for a

the twenty-first century! Surely 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

efforts at miming remained futile. We

them sitting side by side, disconsolate. Laurel was the first to speak. “If we can’t get any results here, we should

We don’t know how much longer the road up ahead is. If we aren’t careful, we

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

leaped to her feet in excitement. “If we get in touch with the local police, they may be able to send us home. We won’t have to wander around so aimlessly

idea we’d had. We cheered up instantly at the thought and launching

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

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

were enthusiastic. “Leave it

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

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

girls’ theft. However, on account

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