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33rd translation contest: "Back to the playground" » English to Serbian » Entry by Marija Pejovic


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Translation by Marija Pejovic (#38503)

[...] “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.” Nagnula se ka meni baš kao moja drugarica Ejpril kada želi da podeli neku svoju tajnu, iako njene tajne nisu baš neke. Zapravo, nisu čak ni tajne. „Ako nikome ne kažeš da sam ovde, mogu da popravim tvoje oči."
„'Ajde, ne pričaj!"
Trepnula je nekoliko puta. „To upravo pokušavam da uradim.”
„Hoću da kažem da ne možeš to da uradiš!”
„Zašto?”
„Pa, niko do sada nije uspeo da popravi moj vid, ako izuzzmemo naočari."
„Ja imam određene moći. Uverićeš se, pod uslovom…”
„…da nikome ne kažem za tebe?”
„Upravo tako, to je suština.”
„Kako da znam da me nećeš oslepeti? Možda si kao oni trgovci koji zovu telefonom i obećavaju koješta, a zapravo sve lažu.”
Ponovo je počela da mlatara rukama. „Ne bih tako nešto uradila stvorenju koje mi nije ništa nažao učinilo.”
„Što znači da bi mogla da me oslepiš ukoliko ti učinim nešto nažao?”
„To je poverljiva informacija.”
„I ako popraviš moj vid, a ja nikome ne kažem za tebe, napustićeš naše njive?”
„Tako je!”


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