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Translation by Ljubica Nedeljković (#38467)

[...] “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!” [...]
[…] “Imam jedan predlog.” Gusenica se nagnula ka meni, kao što moja drugarica April to radi kada želi da mi poveri tajnu, iako nijedna od njih nikad ne bude dobra. Ili čak ne bude ni prava tajna. “Ako nikome ne kažeš da sam ovde, mogu da ti popravim vid”.
“Ma idi bre!”
Trepnula je par puta. “Upravo to i pokušavam da uradim.”
“Htedoh da kažem: ti to ne možeš.”
“Zašto da ne?”
“Zato što niko nije uspeo da mi popravi dioptriju, osim uz pomoć naočara.”
“Ja posedujem određene sposobnosti. Videćeš, ukoliko…”
“…Nikome ne kažem za tebe?”
“U tome je suština. To je srž.”
“Kako mogu da znam da me nećeš oslepeti? Ti bi mogla biti poput onih dosadnih teleprodavaca koji svašta obećavaju, a u stvari samo lažu.”
Ponovo je počela da pravi one naizmenične kružne pokrete rukama, kao pri voskiranju automobila. “Nikada takvu stvar ne bih učinila stvorenju koje mi nije nanelo nikakvo zlo.”
“Dakle, ako bih ti naudila, mogla bi me oslepeti?”
“To valja znati.”
“A ukoliko mi poboljšaš vid, i ja nikome ne kažem za tvoju pojavu, napustićeš našu njivu?”
“U tome i jeste suština!” […]


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