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Translation by Michael Zamman (#38534)

[...] “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!” [...]
[...] “Ina da shawara.” Ya jingina gaba kamar yadda abokiyata Afrilu ke yi lokacin da take son faɗan wani sirri, duk da cewar babu wani sirrinta da ke wani amfani. Ko a ce ma sirri ne da gaske. “Idan baka gaya wa kowa ina nan ba, zan iya gyara idanuwanka.”
“Bar garin!”
Ya lumshe sau da dama. "Abin da nake ƙoƙarin yi ke nan.”
“Abin da nake nufi shine ba za ka iya yin hakan ba!"
“Me ya hana?"
"To, babu wanda ya taɓa iya gyara idanuwana, banda gilashin."
“Ina da wasu baiwa. Za ka gani, muddin...”
“…Ban gaya wa kowa game da kai ba?”
“Wannan shine ainihin batun, shine zancen.”
“Ta yaya zan san ba za ka maƙantar da ni ba? Kana iya zama kamar ɗaya daga cikin waɗancan masu tallan kan-layi suna yin alƙawura amma gabaɗaya ƙarya ne.”
Maimaicin ya fara kuma. “Ba zan yi irin wannan abu ga wani halitta da bai cutar da ni ba."
“Ma'ana idan na cutar da kai, za ka iya sa ni in maƙanta?”
“Wannan akan buƙatar neman-sani ne.”
“Kuma idan ka gyara idanuwana, kuma ban gaya wa kowa game da kai ba, za ka bar gonakinmu?”
“Wannan shine ainihin batun!” [...]


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