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Translation by Magdalena Željeznjak (#38314)

[...] “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 za tebe.” Ono se nagnulo prema meni baš kao i moja prijateljica April kada mi želi otkriti tajnu, iako te tajne nikad nisu vrijedne pažnje. A nisu baš ni tajne. „Ako nikome ne odaš da sam ovdje, popravit ću tvoje oči.”
„Ma bježi!”
Biće je trepnulo nekoliko puta. „Pa to i pokušavam.”
„Ma, mislim, ne možeš to učiniti!”
„Zašto ne?”
„Pa nikome drugome nije pošlo za rukom, osim uz pomoć naočala.”
„Ja imam određene sposobnosti. Vidjet ćeš, ako...”
„Nikome ne ispričam o tebi?”
„U tome je bit, o tome se i radi.”
„Kako da znam da me nećeš oslijepiti? Možda si baš poput prodavača koji daju razna obećanja, a lažu čim zinu.”
Biće se čas istezalo, čas skupljalo. „Ne želim tako nešto učiniti stvoru koji mi nije napravio ništa nažao.”
„Odnosno, ako ti učinim nešto nažao, možda ćeš me oslijepiti?”
„To je strogo povjerljiva informacija.”
„A ako mi popraviš oči i nikome ne budem pričala o tebi, otići ćeš s naših polja?”
„U tome je bit.”


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