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Translation by Jasna Gonda (#38461)

[...] “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.“ Nagnulo se napred kao moja prijateljica Ejpril kada želi da kaže tajnu, iako nijedna od njenih tajni ništa ne vredi. Niti je čak zaista tajna. "Ako nikome ne kažeš da sam ovde, mogu ti popraviti oči."
“Gubite se iz grada!”
Trepnulo je nekoliko puta. "To upravo pokušavam."
"Hoću da kažem da to ne možete da uradite!"
"Što da ne?"
„Pa, niko drugi nije uspeo da mi popravi oči, osim pomoću naočara.
„Ja imam određene sposobnosti. Videćeš, pod uslovom…”
„…da nikome ne pričam o vama?“
"To je suština, to je bit."
„Kako da znam da me nećete oslepiti? Možda ste kao neki od onih telemarketera koji obećavaju, ali samo lažu."
Počelo je da priča, i priča. „Ne bih učinio tako nešto nekome ko mi nije naudio.
„Znači da kad bih vam naudio, mogli bi da me oslepite?“
"To je samo za onog ko mora da zna."
„A ako mi popravite oči, a ja nikome ne kažem za vas, napustićete naša polja?“
"To je suština!"


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