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33rd translation contest: "Back to the playground" » English to Luhya

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[...] “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!” [...]

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[...]"ndi ne enganakani." Somile ebweni mbo omusali wangeci kwa khane nge akholanga nekenya kkhubola esiri yewe, ata kakhaba mbo mbao esiri yewe endayi tawe. Name ata seli esiri tawe."Ne okhabolela omundu oli ndi ano tawe ,nyala nang'ona chimono choo."
"Rura enje we siko!"
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Chindolelo chimokamokilekho khubisee bititi."sienesi nisio khekhaka khukhola."
Nisio khemaanisia sonyala wakholà orio tawe!"
"Namwe Sina?"
Mbao okundi oli ne bunyali bwe khung'ona chimoni chase tawe,nekakhali ne bikio."
"Ndi nebunyali Bulani. Olabona sa , kabali..."
"...sembolelakho omundu yesi yesi khukhuusu tawe "
"Okwo nikwo kumoyo kwayo, niyo enganga. "
Nyala namanya ndie mbo sekheufunikha chimoni chase tawe? Onyala waba nge mulsla we bakusi balakanga mala aba lukali khebabea."
Yanjile khuboa ne kuboolola lundi."senyala nakhola sindu sifuana sirio khu siumbe sikhakholelakho kamabii tawe ."
"Khumaanisia mbo ngabali nakhuumisia ,onyala wakila nabofula?"
"Eyo eli khukwenya ne khumanya. "
"Ne Kabali onyala wakhila chimoni chase, sembolelakho omundu khuusu ewewe tawe, onyala walura mu biwanja siefwe?"
"Okwo nikwo kumoyo kwayo"[...]
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