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Translation by Sara Abaunza Urionabarrenetxea (#37718)

[...] “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!” [...]
[...] "Proposamen bat dut". Aurrera egin zuen, nire lagun Aprilek sekretu bat kontatu nahi duenean egiten duen bezala, nahiz eta bere sekretuetako bat ere ez den ona izaten. Ezta sekretu ere. "Inori ez badiozu hemen nagoela esaten, zure begiak konponduko ditut".
"Bai zera, alde hemendik!".
Keinu egin zuen pare bat aldiz. "Horixe egiten saiatzen ari naiz".
"Esan nahi dudana da ezin duzula halakorik egin!".
"Zergatik ez?".
"Tira, beste inor ez da nire begiak konpontzeko gai izan, betaurrekoekin baino ez".
"Zenbait trebetasun ditut. Ikusiko duzu, baldin eta…".
"…Inori zuri buruz hitz egiten ez badiot?".
"Hori da funtsezkoa, hori da oinarri".
"Nola jakin dezaket ez nauzula itsutuko? Promesak egiten dituen telemarketineko langile gezurti horietako bat bezalakoa izan zaitezke".
Argizaria ematen hasi zen, berriro argizaria ematen. "Ez nioke ezer egingo minik egin ez didan izaki bati".
"Hau da, min egiten badizut, itsu gera naiteke?".
"Jakin beharreko zerbait da".
"Eta nire begiak konpontzen badituzu, eta inori ez badiot zuri buruz hitz egiten, gure soroak bakean utziko dituzu?".
"Hori da funtsezkoa!". [...]


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