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Plastic Sea (DE) — What's Left, Page 21

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Panel 1: Gleißendes Morgenlicht auf einem leeren Meer. Roka liegt schlaff in der orangefarbenen Schwimmhilfe, die Augen halb geschlossen, die Lippen rissig, die gelbe Ente locker an die Brust gedrückt. Ein riesiger Schatten gleitet über ihn und das Wasser. Panel 2: Aus dem Wasser erhebt sich der Bug der Garden Ship wie eine bemalte Klippe aus roten, türkisfarbenen und gelben Flicken; Flickwerksegel heben sich vor dem Himmel ab, rote Schaufelräder wirbeln das Wasser auf.

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Erschöpft und kaum bei Bewusstsein liegt Roka in der orangefarbenen Schwimmhilfe und hält die Ente, während ein riesiger Schatten auf ihn fällt; das Flickwerk-Schiff Garden Ship ragt über ihm auf.

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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.