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.

earlier, then brought it crashing

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

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

turned a sickly pale. Nora gulped, then quickly said, “Let’s

pick quite a lot of mushrooms. The

spring, we’d settle down to eat and drink. No matter

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

panted. The near-constant rate of trekking had left her face flushed and dripping with

very sweet,

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 getting food as the

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

was resigned to waiting on the ground below, picking up

greedily ate any fruits she’d managed

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

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

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

“What is that woman doing? She’s been fumbling with her things

shrugged

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

These girls can be so flippant about things sometimes! I

wiped out the entire tree. We even took the few that weren’t yet ripe to be consumed later

the only aggressive one we encountered. The rest of the way, though bumpy, contained nothing as

supply of water, fruits, and a

crossed few peaks, daylight slowly began to fade. We still hadn’t found ourselves a suitable resting spot for the night, however. Nora grew visibly anxious, insisting, “Let’s keep going forward. I saw a couple of

seemed to be the only viable solution for now. The other girls found Nora’s

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

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

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 myself to some

in. “I’ll take everyone out to

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

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

rest

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to go home this time around, what would you

lingered in my mind as I continued trudging forward, deep

want to see the

curiously pressed, “Is

a faint

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

shining in the dark, there were probably thirty to

night,” Nora suggested,

A dog suddenly rushed out into the yard and began

leashed to a rope. It strained against its tether, barking

the cottage had evidently heard the ruckus. Out stepped

say. After a while, Tabitha gasped. “We might

after peak, hadn’t brought us any closer to home. We’d even

into disarray. Upon seeing our confused faces, the owner of the cottage seemed to further mistake our intentions. He waved his axe at us threateningly

ran out of the cottage just then. She tugged at

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

Tabitha made a few hesitant

did,

walls were caked with soot,

farming villages would have used decades ago. The lamp burned dimly at a

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

covered the tent looked

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

the man continued to gesture furiously. He seemed to be

was steeped in chili. Nora

rather adventurously. She had more of an appetite than the rest of us

whole day, we dug in rather gratefully. The flavor of the pickled onions, spicy with

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

a corner. They

Along with her hand signals, she deliberately spoke a few basic words,

came to understand that we were here to borrow

stumped, however, by what exactly a phone

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

woke the next morning, the man was already up in the tree in his yard

basket, picking up the soft fruits he’d accidentally let tumble onto the

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 to

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

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

whole turn of events, and I feel as if I’ve been enlightened. How we live our lives should be entirely up to

the philosophical tendencies she’d been harboring all this way. We’d finally managed to pique her

groaning, “Can we take a break

the yard and began picking up fruits

still couldn’t communicate with words but smiles and gestures

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home, Nora hauled me along into the village in our hunt

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

remained futile. We departed

and Laurel hadn’t fared much 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

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

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

leaped to her feet in excitement. “If we get in touch with the local police,

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

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

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

were enthusiastic. “Leave it to us!”

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

returned with their arms laden with fruit, fully expecting the

had counted on the kindness of the villager. The owner of the house had been enraged at the two girls’ theft. However, on account of Nora and Tabitha being foreigners, the villager had assumed that both girls were foraging for food and ultimately

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