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Translation by Samanta Bićanić (#38153)

[...] “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 prijedlog.” Nagnulo se naprijed kao i moja prijateljica April kada želi ispričati tajnu, iako nijedna njezina tajna nije dobra... ili uopće tajna. „Ako ne kažeš nikome da sam ovdje, popravit ću ti vid.”
„Ma, daj bježi!”
Trepnulo je nekoliko puta. „To i pokušavam.”
„Želim reći da je to nemoguće napraviti!”
„Zašto?”
„Pa, nitko mi drugi nije uspio popraviti vid, osim naočalama.”
„Imam određene sposobnosti. Vidjet ćeš, pod uvjetom...”
„...da ne kažem nikome za tebe?”
„To je srž svega, to je suština svega.”
„Kako znam da me nećeš oslijepiti? Možeš ispasti poput onih trgovaca preko telefona koji puno obećavaju, ali zapravo lažu.”
Počelo je ponovno lamatati rukama. „Nikad ne bih tako nešto napravio biću koje mi nije naudilo.”
„Želiš reći da bi me mogao oslijepiti ako bih ti naudila?”
„To je nešto što ti ne moraš znati.”
„A ako mi popraviš vid i ja ne kažem nikome za tebe, napustit ćeš naša polja?”
„U suštini!” [...]


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