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.

had flung away earlier, then brought it crashing

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

the snake had

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

we slowly forged our way forward, we managed to pick quite a lot of mushrooms. The forested mountain was

settle down to eat and drink. No

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

trekking had left her face flushed and dripping with

wild. It’s not very sweet, but it’s edible. We can pick them all and bring

sounded like a good plan. 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 getting food as the

shot. Being rather plump and short, however, climbing

a few attempts but gave up after a while. Laurel was resigned to

greedily ate any fruits she’d managed to pluck, blissfully indulging in

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

surveyed her surroundings, then took another huge bite of the apple in her hand. “That made me

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

observed, “What is that woman doing? She’s been fumbling with her things ever since we got here! Did killing that snake mess with

shrugged

of you talking about? Let’s be quick! Once we’re done picking the fruits, we should hurry along,”

These girls can be

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

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

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

a suitable resting spot for the night, however. Nora grew visibly anxious, insisting, “Let’s keep going forward. I saw a couple

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

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

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

surely take myself out for a good foie gras and

joined in. “I’ll take everyone out to

Nora declared exaggeratedly, popping the rest of the

it out of here alive. Let’s focus on

statement rather dampened our cheeriness. Exchanging glances, the rest of us

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go home this time around, what would you want to do

did I want? That question lingered in my

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

taken by surprise. Then she curiously pressed, “Is it somebody

gave her a faint smile but

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

the dark, there were probably thirty to forty

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

dog suddenly rushed out into the yard and began sounding

dog was leashed to a rope. It strained against its

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

of us understood what he was trying to say. After a while, Tabitha gasped. “We might

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

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

years of age, ran out of the cottage just then. She tugged at the

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

a few

tell if he understood. He did, however, let

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

ago. The lamp burned dimly at a bare fifty watts, probably to save on

some bowls and utensils in a neat stack in a corner. The roof of the cottage was, in fact, a tent stitched together out of gunny sacks. There

that covered the

took out two bowls from a

barrier, the man continued to gesture furiously.

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

it?” Tabitha exclaimed rather adventurously. She had more

flavor of the pickled onions, spicy with a hint of sourness, was

tasted anything. The pickled onions thus

ate, the man and his daughter squatted in a corner. They gazed at us with curiosity and awe, mixed with a tinge

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

that we were here

by what exactly a phone

wait until the next day for the man to seek help from his fellow villagers. Until then,

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

picking up the soft fruits he’d accidentally let

over to pick up some fruit, she’d beam a smile in our direction. It

makes you rethink the link between happiness and wealth, doesn’t it?” Tabitha mused, looking rather

against the door frame. “Why? Are

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

been destined!” Tessa quipped. This discussion aligned with the philosophical tendencies she’d been harboring all this way. We’d finally managed to

her temple, groaning, “Can we take a break from

straight out into the yard and began picking

still couldn’t communicate with words but smiles

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Nora hauled me along into the village in our hunt for

When we knocked on the door of the next cottage, however, Nora’s hand

remained futile. We

speak. “If we can’t get any results here, we should try moving

don’t know how much longer the road up ahead is. If we aren’t careful, we may be mistaken for thieves and locked up,” Nora countered. She plopped

local policeman knows a little more than

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

was the most promising idea we’d had. We cheered up instantly at the thought and launching into a feverish discussion of

knows if there’s even a functional

in any criminal

and Tabitha, however, were enthusiastic. “Leave it to

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

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

enraged at the two girls’ theft. However, on account of Nora and Tabitha being foreigners, the villager had assumed that both girls were foraging

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