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Translation by Mujahid Abdulwahab (#38533)

[...] “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!” [...]
[...] "Ina da shawara." Ya yi gaba kamar yadda abokina Afrilu yake yi lokacin da take son faɗan sirri, duk da cewa babu wani sirrin da ke da kyau. Ko ma sirrin gaske. "Idan baki gaya wa kowa ina nan ba, zan iya gyara idanunku."
"Fita daga gari!"
Ya ƙifta ido sau biyu. "Abin da nake ƙoƙarin yi ke nan."
"Abin da nake nufi shine ba za ku iya yin hakan ba!"
"Me yasa?"
"To, babu wanda ya iya gyara min idanuwana, sai dai tabaro."
“Ina da wasu ƙwarewa. Za ku gani, matuƙar…”
"...Kar na faɗa wa kowa game da ku?"
"Wannan ita ce kan batun, wato nub."
“Ta yaya zan san ba za ku makantar da ni ba? Kuna iya zama kamar ɗaya daga cikin waɗancan masu tallan telefon suna yin alƙawari amma gaba ɗaya ƙarya.”
Ya fara kumbura, yana sake kashewa. "Ba zan yi irin wannan abu ga wata halitta da ba ta cutar da ni ba."
"Ma'ana idan na cutar da ke, za ki iya makantar da ni?"
"Wannan akan buƙatan-sani ne."
"Kuma idan kun gyara idanuna, kuma ban faɗa wa kowa game da ku ba, za ku bar gonakinmu?"
"Wannan shine kan batun!" [...]


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