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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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[…] “Ek het ’n voorstel.” Die ding leun vorentoe soos my vriendin April wanneer sy ’n geheim wil vertel, al is haar geheime niks om oor huis toe te skryf nie. Dis eintlik nie eens regte geheime nie.

“As jy vir niemand vertel ek is hier nie, kan ek jou oë regmaak.”

“Aag, maak dat jy wegkom!”

Die ding knipper sy oë. “Dis mos wat ek probeer doen.”

“Ek bedoel, jy sal nie my oë kan regkry nie.”

“Hoekom nie?”

“Wel, niemand kon nog my oë regmaak nie, behalwe met ’n bril.”

“Ek kan ’n ding of twee doen, jy sal sien, maar …”

“… ek mag niemand van jou vertel nie?”

“Kolskoot. Reg soos ’n roer.”

“Hoe weet ek jy gaan my nie blind maak nie? Jy’s dalk soos een van daai verkoopsmense wat ’n mens bel en allerhande goed belowe en deur hulle tande lieg.”

Hy begin weer vryfbewegings met sy arms maak. “Ek sal mos nie so iets doen aan iemand wat my niks aangedoen het nie.”

“Bedoel jy as ek iets aan jou doen, kan jy my blind maak?”

“Vir my om te weet, vir jou om uit te vind.”

“En as jy my oë regmaak en ek vir niemand van jou vertel nie, sal jy padgee uit ons landerye?”

“Kolskoot!” […]
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