Plastic Sea (IT) — What's Left，第 30 页
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Pannello 1: Minuscole scintille ciano si accendono nel punto in cui la polvere d’argento tocca la pelle di Roka. Una voce proveniente dalla custodia, in un fumetto nero: «Caldo.» Pannello 2: Roka si immobilizza. Roka: «...Chi l’ha detto?» Pannello 3: La polvere gli risale l’avambraccio destro come metallo liquido, con linee luminose che corrono fino al gomito, e lui cade all’indietro. Roka: «VIA!» «TOGLITI DI DOSSO!»
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Scintille divampano quando la polvere d’argento tocca la mano di Roka, una voce dice «Caldo» e la polvere gli risale impetuosamente lungo il braccio destro mentre lui cade all’indietro urlando.
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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.