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Translation by Sebastian Magoto (#37736)

[...] “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!” [...]
"Nina pendekezo." Ilinisogelea kwa karibu kama rafiki angu April afanyavyo pindi anapotaka kuniambia siri, japo kuwa siri zake hazinaga mashiko. Na huwa sio siri hata. _" kama hutomwambia mtu niko hapa, nita kuponya macho yako."
"Toka kwenye huu mji!"
Kikapepesa macho mara kadhaa, "hicho ndio nacho jaribu kufanya."
"Ninacho maanisha ni kwamba huwezi kufanya hivyo."
"Kwanini haiwezekani?"
"Kwanza, hakuna mtu ameweza kuponya macho yangu , pasina miwani."
"Mimi ninauwezo wakipekee, nitakuonyesha kama tu..."
"....Nisipo mwambia mtu yoyote kuhusu wewe."
"Hilo ndilo sharti la muhimu zaidi ,hicho ndo kiini."
"Nitajuaje kama huto nipofua ?" Unaweza kuwa miongoni mwa hao matapeli wanaotoa ahadi za uwongo."
Kiliendelea kusisitiza . "Sito weza kufanya kitu kama hicho kwa kiumbe ambaye hajanidhuru kwa lolote."
"Unamaanisha kama ningekudhuru ungenifanya niwe kipofu?"
"Hilo siwezi kusema kwa sasa"
"Na ukiyaponya macho yangu, na nisipomwambia mtu yoyote kuhusu wewe, utaondoka katika eneo letu."
"Hilo nakuhakikishia."


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