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Translation by Judit Ripoll (#38441)

[...] “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!” [...]
[...] "Tinc una proposta." Es va inclinar cap endavant com fa la meva amiga April quan vol explicar un secret, tot i que cap dels seus secrets és gens bo. O ni tan sols secrets de veritat. "Si no li dius a ningú que soc aquí, et puc curar la vista."
"Fora del poble!"
Va parpellejar un parell de vegades. "Això és el que intento fer."
"El que vull dir és que no pots fer això!"
"Per què no?"
"Bé, ningú més m'ha pogut curar la vista, a part de"les ulleres."
"Tinc certes habilitats. Veuràs, atès que..."
"...No li parlo a ningú de tu?"
"Aquest és el fons de la qüestió, aquest és el tema."
"Com sé que no em deixaràs cega? Podries ser com un d'aquests televenedors que fan promeses però menteixen completament."
Va començar a encerar-se, a encerar-se de nou. "No faria una cosa així a una criatura que no m'ha fet cap mal."
"Vols dir que si et fes mal, em podries deixar cec?"
"Hauria de passar per saber-ho."
"I si em cures la vista i no li parlo a ningú de tu, marxaràs de les nostres terres?"
"Aquest és el fons de la qüestió!” [...]


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