Blue Harvest

By D. E. Harrison

Kelal lives in a single father family, no brothers, or sisters. She has little female guidance; as such, she explores the forbidden land more than even the males. Nothing grows in the forbidden land. There a forbidden line very plain in the ground where all growth stops on the other side. As far as one can see nothing grows across the forbidden line.
Kelal lives in the Blue valley. It is full of blue blooms ready to harvest. Kalel’s father has planted his entire farm with seeds from ever so near the forbidden line, found by Kalel. Will they produce the food they need?

After the harvest, Kelal crosses the forbidden line and explores ever deeper into the forbidden lands. Other have seen her, not of the Blue Valley, and watch her closely. She sees strange plants and animals, but they all block their sentential thoughts.
A meeting of two races so different can only end badly for one of them. Both fear the power of the others. Will the discovered race consider Kelal, all 6-feet 2-inch of her, a young girl, or the warrior princess of a powerful race? Should they start to hide their families?
In the Blue Valley can the Circle of 12 keep the other race from the Blue Valley?

• Language: English
• Publisher: D. E. Harrison
• Release date: Aug 2, 2018
• ISBN: 9780463164563

D. E. Harrison

I am trained as a theoretical mathematician. I am an emeritus member of the American Mathematical Society for fifty odd years. I have lived in Seattle since 1967. I starting writing fiction after writing a family history.

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Blue Harvest

By D. E. Harrison

Copyright 2016 by D. E. Harrison

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1 The Harvest

Chapter 2 The Forbidden Line

Chapter 3 Travel to the Forbidden Line

Chapter 4 The Tale is Told of the Trip

Chapter 5 A New Planting

Chapter 6 Exploring the Forbidden Zone and Beyond

Chapter 7 The First meeting

Chapter 8 Another Meeting

Chapter 9 the Committee Continues to Meet

Chapter 10 A Second Meeting of Both Parties is About to Happen

Chapter 11 The Second Meeting

Chapter 12 Reporting the 2nd Meeting

Chapter 13 Trade Emissaries

Chapter 14 The Traded Guests Learn Much

Chapter 15 The Report of the Learned Man

Chapter 16 The Return to Blue Valley

Chapter 17 The Chief Head Scout

Chapter 18 The End and the Start

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Chapter 1 The Harvest

Kelal is a young woman living as the only child with her single father in the Blue Valley. She is nearly full grown at 6-feet and 2-inches.

Yago is a young man and friends with Kelal since they were young. He is a head shorter than she is. He has always been shorter than Kelal.

They live on farms in Blue Valley as does everyone else. After seeding and tending the fields they have some free time from their farming duties.

Kelal and Yago go into the mountains nearby but not over the forbidden line. It is a trip taken by everyone that is young or young in heart. Those recently joined after the harvest is expected to spend their first meeting here among nature.

They talk, explore but do not removed any of the flowers, through up here there are many colors not seen in the Blue Valley. The larger ones have the colors of the bow in the sky several times across their face formed by the blue orb.

After a meal and a drink, they approach the line that is forbidden. It is not an artificial line but a line in the actual soil. On one side are all the blooms and growth that it can support and the other side bears nothing for the length of several large men. Beyond that is only stunned short growths of ‘things’ not sentinel.

They both stand staring in silence for a time. This is always a time to reflect how lucky they are to be in the Blue Valley. It appears that several large steps would put them over the line but what else is over there is hard to see or know. She picks up a small stone and throws it over the forbidden line. It kicks up a small amount of dust. Nothing else moves. They walk along the zone for a time and then follow a different path back to the Blue Valley.

They say little on the way home, but the forbidden line is straight in both directions as far as one can see. It makes no difference if the ground is flat, bumpy, hills or valley. It continues forever.

The path home bends a bit and again comes close to the forbidden line. Kelal bends and then knees down where a small trickle of water runs along the forbidden line. The red grass grows so thick on her side of the line. But upon closer inspection, the forbidden line is rather jagged. The red grass is growing into the forbidden line. Near the water, the red grass has grown more than the width of her hand into the forbidden zone.

Yago is impatient, Kelal, we must leave now before the first orb becomes weak and sinks from view to rest.

They return to the Blue Valley just as the first bell sounds. Both have duties to perform before the 2nd and final bell.

As she works, she wonders, ‘what of the red grass.’

Unseen by Yago she placed a small stone at the far edge of the red grass. She pushed it into place with a stick; she never once crossed the line.

Chapter 2 The Forbidden Line

Several of the pink orbs later, Kelal again remembers how she had marked the red grass with the stone,

Father, I wish to be alone again in the beauty of the wilds for a time. I have much to think of

Her father nods his consent. Kelal must use more of her instincts than other young females who have a permanent guide through these early years.

She travels to the red grass and the forbidden line. Kelal is less concerned of her future years as a guide to her own females than what is happening to the red grass. She finds the red grass has spread beyond her stone, but she does not believe it.

‘Someone must have moved it to tease me,’ she thinks.

She walks to the closest Gino bush near the red grass and carefully removes a dead vine. Never would she injure a living part. When well removed from the plant, where it could not discern what she is doing to its lifeless part, she breaks it into hand length pieces.

She takes the six pieces, the first one goes at the edge of the forbidden zone and the red grass, the next one goes