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

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패널 1: 아침 햇살이 눈부시게 내리쬐는 텅 빈 바다. 로카는 주황색 튜브에 축 늘어져 누워 있다. 눈은 반쯤 감겼고 입술은 갈라져 있으며, 노란 오리를 가슴에 느슨하게 안고 있다. 거대한 그림자가 그와 물 위로 미끄러져 지나간다. 패널 2: 물 위로 가든 쉽의 뱃머리가 솟아오른다. 붉은색, 청록색, 노란색 조각무늬로 칠한 절벽 같다. 조각천을 이어 붙인 돛이 하늘을 배경으로 펼쳐지고, 붉은 외륜이 물을 휘젓는다.

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탈진해 거의 의식이 없는 로카는 노란 오리를 안은 채 주황색 튜브에 누워 있고, 거대한 그림자가 그 위로 드리운다. 조각무늬의 가든 쉽이 그 위로 우뚝 솟아 있다.

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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.