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works/stories/the-dead-eye/text

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ great effort, pushed him over and looked at his face.
 "His eye is dead!" she shouted.
 
 "Kewedjjí," Sávv said in the tongue of the East[^2]. "Ridiculous. How can
-an eye die and leave its owner behind?" But he saw that it was true; one
+an eye die and leave its owner alive?" But he saw that it was true; one
 of his eyes was a beautiful, bright green, but the other had faded to
 a sphere the color of wet stone, cloudy and empty.
 
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ telling them all of Káffaśwerṯal and that he walks once again.
 
 "For a day, he would not move, and only stirred on occasion, to ask
 where the red-bearded man had gone. But the next day, he sat up
-and spoke to Bezén, and asked for Shimákhts grains and water, and
+and spoke to Bezén, and asked for Śimáxts grains and water, and
 Bezén brought them from his garden and asked him what had happend."
 
 "What happened to him?" people crowded around to ask. "Why did he
@@ -124,13 +124,13 @@ said. "He and I found an inn on the way to Suráv and stayed, and he
 asked me what I knew about it. I told him—truthfully—that I did not
 know what it was, and he told me that he was a man of many evil things.
 He told me that in his youth he joined a gang of thieves and murderers
-and that his crimes were so many that they eventually forced him to
+and that his crimes were so many that even they eventually forced him to
 leave.
 
 "He also told me that he invoked the gods constantly during this time
 and that his prayers fell of deaf ears. The gods, he said, would not
 grant him favors, and if his prayers came true, it was because they
-had come true anyway. One night, when he had been arrested and was
+would have come true anyway. One night, when he had been arrested and was
 lying alone in a flooding jail cell in the summer rains, he cursed
 the gods so much his voice became hoarse.