Plastic Sea (DE) — What's Left, Página 16
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Unter Wasser in sonnenbeschienenem türkisfarbenem Wasser sinkt Roka langsam, die Augen geschlossen, ein Arm im orangefarbenen Schwimmring, während leuchtende Plastiksplitter um ihn herumwirbeln. Neben ihm gleitet das gewaltige milchige Auge von The Maw vorbei, eingebettet in eine Haut aus sechseckigen Platten, die mit Seepocken und Plastik verkrustet sind. Es zieht an ihm vorbei.
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Unter Wasser treibt Roka schlaff durch leuchtende Plastiktrümmer und hält den orangefarbenen Schwimmring fest, während das riesige milchige Auge des Monsters an ihm vorbeizieht.
Sobre este capítulo
In the dark at the bottom of the sea, something is counting. On Candyreef, a candy-coloured island of floating trash, Roka wakes to a water bag in the face from his street crew, lifts breakfast from the old woman who would have fed him anyway, and tells the kid who follows him that he doesn't owe anybody. Then the gulls lift all at once, and a Maw eats half the island. A day and a night alone at sea later, the Garden Ship fishes him out and orders him to walk its treadwheels for fish heads. Roka is nobody's slave, so he goes looking for something to steal instead, and breaks into a barnacled case dredged from the seabed. The silver dust inside climbs into his arm and says hello. It is polite. It is curious. It wants every human dead. And it has just started counting again.