The Girl with the Jade Green Eyes Author:John Boyd "When that encounter looked forward to since the beginning of human speculation - the meeting of mankind with intelligent beings from outer space - occurred two years ago in a remote area of the Idaho Panhandle, the event was not marked in the heavens with strange lights or on earth with newspaper headlines. It began prosaically one T... more »hursday morning in late May . . .
"'Where are you from?'
"She glanced toward the eastern ridge, studying it, and for a moment he thought she might point to a rock or a tree. Weighing her answer carefully, she pointed toward the top of ridge and said, 'From there.'