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Translation by Kristina R (#38458)

[...] “I have a proposal.” It leaned forward like my friend April does when she wants to tell a secret, even though none of her secrets are any good. Or even really secrets. “If you don’t tell anyone I am here, I can fix your eyes.”
“Get out of town!”
It blinked a couple of times. “That is what I am attempting to do.”
“What I mean is you can’t do that!”
“Why not?”
“Well, no one else has been able to fix my eyes, besides with glasses.”
“I have certain abilities. You will see, provided…”
“…I don’t tell anyone about you?”
“That is the heart of it, that is the nub.”
“How do I know you won’t blind me? You could be like one of those telemarketers making promises but totally lying.”
It started waxing on, waxing off again. “I would not do such a thing to a creature who has done me no harm.”
“Meaning if I harmed you, you could make me go blind?”
“That’s on a need-to-know basis.”
“And if you fix my eyes, and I don’t tell anyone about you, you’ll leave our fields?”
“That’s the heart of it!” [...]
[...] “Imam predlog.” To se nagnulo prema meni, kao moja prijateljica April kada želi da mi ispriča neku tajnu, iako njene tajne ne vrede ničemu. “Ako ne kažeš nikome da sam tu, mogu ti popraviti vid.”
"Ma beži, bre!”
Trepnulo je par puta. “To i planiram da uradim.”
“Hteo sam da kažem da smatram da ti to ne možeš da uradiš!”
“Zašto?”
“Pa, niko drugi, osim mojih naočara, nije uspeo da mi popravi vid”
“Ja imam određene sposobnosti. Videćeš ako...”
“…ne kažem nikome za tebe?”
“To je suština, u tome je caka.”
“Kako da znam da me nećeš oslepeti? Možda si kao oni prodavci sa telešopa koji obećavaju svašta ali lažu čim zinu”
To je počelo da se povećava postepeno, pa ponovo smanjuje. “Ne bih to nikada uradio stvorenju koje mi nije učinilo zlo.”
“Što znači ako ti učinim neko zlo, možeš da me oslepiš?”
“To je čisto formalno.”
“Znači, ako mi popraviš vid i ja ne kažem nikome za tebe, ti ćeš napustiti naša polja?”
“To je suština!” [...]


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