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Translation by Vesna Maširević (#38297) — Winner

[...] “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 jedan predlog”. Nagnulo se ka meni kao moja drugarica Ejpril kada želi da ispriča neku tajnu, mada njene tajne i nisu neke. Niti su zapravo tajne. „Ako nikom ne kažeš da sam ovde, mogu ti popraviti vid.”
„Ma zezaš!”
Trepnulo je par puta. „To je ono što pokušavam da postignem.”
„Hoću da kažem da ne možeš to da uradiš!”
„Što da ne?”
„Pa, nikome dosad nije pošlo za rukom da mi popravi vid, osim pomoću naočara.”
„Ja imam izvesne sposobnosti. Videćeš, pod uslovom…”
„…da ne kažem nikome za tebe?”
„To je suština stvari, to je ono ključno.”
„Kako da znam da me nećeš oslepeti? Možda si kao jedan od onih telemarketara koji obećavaju svašta, a zapravo je sve to daleko od istine.”
Opet je počelo da kruži rukama kao Karate Kid. „Ne bih to uradio biću koje mi ničim nije naudilo.”
„Znači, ako te povredim, mogao bi da me oslepiš?”
„To je poverljiva informacija.”
„A ako mi popraviš vid i ne kažem nikome za tebe, otići ćeš s naših polja?”
„To je suština stvari!” [...]


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