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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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[...] “Imam prijedlog.” Nagnulo se naprijed kao moja prijateljica Ejpril kada želi da oda tajnu, iako nijedna od njenih tajni ništa ne valja. Ili čak i nije neka tajna. “Ako nikome ne kažeš da sam ovdje, mogu ti popraviti oči.”
“Ma bježi!”
Trepnulo je nekoliko puta. „To je ono što pokušavam da uradim.”
„Hoću reći da ti to ne možeš!”
"Zašto ne mogu?"
„Pa, niko drugi nije uspio da mi popravi oči, osim naočalama.”
“Imam određene moći. Vidjećeš, samo nemoj da…”
“… ikome o tebi govorim?”
“U tome je suština, o tome se radi.”
“Kako da znam da me nećeš oslijepiti? Možda si kao jedan od onih telemarketera koji obećavaju, ali skroz lažu.”
Reče opet sa poštovanjem i strpljenjem “Ne bih učinio takvo što stvorenju koje me nije ničim povrijedilo.”
„A to bi značilo da ako te provrijedim ti bi me mogao oslijepiti?“
"To su povjerljive informacije."
“A ako mi popraviš oči, a nikome ne kažem za tebe, napustićeš naše njive?”
“U tome je suština!” [...]
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