Plastic Sea (KO) — What's Left, Page 29
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패널 1: Roka가 무릎을 꿇고 케이스의 걸쇠를 구부러진 포크로 열려고 애쓴다. Roka: '어서.' '보석이어라. 뭐든 좋으니.' 패널 2: 뚜껑이 열리자 엉킨 회로 기판과 칩, 전선, 유리관, 금이 간 유리 구체가 드러난다. 모두 반짝이는 은빛 가루가 뿌려져 있다. Roka: '고물이네.' '예쁜 고물이야.' 패널 3: 그는 오른손을 가루 속 깊숙이 밀어 넣는다. Roka: '어쩌면 그 밑에는...'
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Roka가 케이스를 억지로 열고, 은빛 가루가 뿌려진 회로 기판들을 발견한 뒤 그 안에 손을 밀어 넣는다.
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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.