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[...] “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!” [...]

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[...]「我有個提議。」佢就好似我朋友April想講秘密時向前傾咁，雖則April啲秘密都唔係好嘢嚟，或者算係咩真正秘密。「如果你唔同人講我喺呢度，我可以整好你雙眼。」
「無可能吧！」
佢眨咗幾下眼。「我準備咁做。」
「我意思係你無可能做得到！」
「點解唔得？」
「即係咁，無咩可以成功整返好我雙眼，眼鏡除外。」
「我有某啲能力。你就嚟會見到，前提係……」
「……我唔同任何人講關於你嘅事？」
「一語中的，確係關鍵。」
「我點知你會唔會整盲我？你可能好似果啲實牙實齒承諾但完全係講大話嘅電話推銷員咁。」
佢雙手又開始做啲似有還無嘅動作。「我唔會對無傷害過我嘅生物咁做。」
「即係如果我傷害你，你就會整盲我？」
「咁係基於你需要知道嘅原則上。」
「如果你整好我雙眼，我又無四圍同人講你嘅嘢，你就會離開我塊農地？」
「一語中的！」 [...]
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[...]「我有個提議。」它像我的朋友艾普爾說秘密的時候向前傾身，雖然她的秘密都沒什麼好處。甚至是秘密。「如果你不說我在這裏，我可以恢復你的視力。」
「別玩啊！」
它眨了幾下眼。「玩？我才不會像孩子玩耍。」
「我的意思是你不可能這麼做！」
「為什麼？」
「因為除了用眼鏡，沒人能夠恢復我的視力。」
「我有一定的能力。你會看到的，前提是……」
「……我不告訴任何人你的事？」
「就是如此，如此。」
「我怎知道你不會令我失明？你可能像那些撒謊的電話推銷員一樣，提出大主張但其實完全假的。」
它的數手又開始畫圈子。「我不會對一個沒有傷害我的生物做這樣的事。」
「也就是說，如果我傷害了你，你就可能令我失明嗎？」
「那是基於需要知道的。」
「那如果你恢復我的視力，而我不告訴人你的事，你就離開我們的田地？」
「就是如此！」 […]
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