Plastic Sea (FR) — What's Left, Page 32
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Case 1 : Gros plan sur l’œil au dos de la main chromée de Roka. Tohum, dans des bulles noires : « Bonjour. » « Tu es tout chaud. » Case 2 : Roka abat son bras contre le sol. Roka : « QU'EST-CE que tu es ?! » « Sors de mon bras ! » Case 3 : L’œil cligne des yeux, imperturbable. Tohum : « Je ne peux pas. » « Tu es la seule chose chaude ici. »
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L’œil sur la main chromée de Roka le salue ; il frappe son bras contre le sol ; l’œil dit calmement qu’il ne peut pas partir.
About this chapter
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.