Plastic Sea (KO) — What's Left, Page 27
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패널 1: 배 안의 좁고 어두컴컴한 복도에서 로카는 밧줄을 들고 지나가는 갑판원 두 명을 상자 더미 뒤에 숨어서 지켜본다. 갑판원: '집게가 어젯밤 무거운 걸 끌어올렸어.' 두 번째 갑판원: '선장이 그걸 인양물 보관고에 잠가 두래.' 패널 2: 어둠 속 로카의 얼굴을 가까이 비춘다. 로카의 눈이 가늘어진다. 로카: '인양물 보관고...' 패널 3: 로카는 바닥의 네모난 해치를 통해 내려간다. 사다리는 청록빛 어둠 속으로 이어진다.
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어두컴컴한 복도에서 상자들 뒤에 숨은 로카는 갑판원들이 집게가 무거운 것을 끌어올려 이제 인양물 보관고에 잠가 두었다고 하는 말을 엿듣고, 바닥의 해치를 통해 아래로 내려간다.
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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.