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33rd translation contest: "Back to the playground" » English to Tagalog » Entry by Beaulah Pacis


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Translation by Beaulah Pacis (#38270)

[...] “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!” [...]
[…] “Meron akong iaalok” lumapit sya sakin kamuka ng paglapit ni April saakin pag may sasabihin syang sikreto, kahit na kadalasan wala namang kwenta ang mga sikreto nya. O hindi naman talaga sikreto. “Kung wala kang sasabihan kahit sino na nandito ako, gagamutin ko yang mga mata mo.”
“Wag mo nga akong niloloko!”
Ilang beses din syang kumurap. “ Yan ang sinusubukan kong gawin.”
“Ang sinasabi ko lang, hindi mo kayang gawin yang sinasabi mo!”
“Bakit hindi?”
“Eh kasi, wala namang nakagamot ng mga mata ko mula noon, salamin lang talaga ang gumana.”
“ Magaling ako, maabilidad. Makikita mo, basta…”
”… wala akong sasabihan tungkol sayo?”
“ Tama, yun ang pangunahing kundisyon.”
“Paano naman ako makakasigurong di mo ko bubulagin? Baka para ka lang ding ahente sa telepono na kung ano ano ang pinapangako, di naman totoo”
Patuloy sya sa pakikipag usap at pagkumbinsi na kaya nyang magpagaling ng mata at pagpapaliwanag na hindi ito puro salita at pangako lang. “Hindi ko kayang manakit ng kahit sino na wala namang ginagawang masama saakin.”
“Ibig sabihin, pag nagawan kita ng hindi maganda, pwede mo akong bulagin?”
“Malalaman mo lang yan, pag may ginawa ka na”
“At kung gagamutin mo ang mata ko, at wala akong sasabihang kahit na sino tungkol sayo, aalis ka na sa lugar namin?”
“Tama, yun ang pangunahing kundisyon.” […]


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