Plastic Sea (KO) — What's Left, Page 32
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패널 1: 로카의 크롬 손등에 있는 눈을 클로즈업. 토훔, 검은 말풍선: '안녕.' '넌 정말 따뜻하구나.' 패널 2: 로카가 팔을 바닥에 내리친다. 로카: '대체 넌 뭐야?!' '내 팔에서 나가!' 패널 3: 눈이 태연하게 깜빡인다. 토훔: '그럴 수 없어.' '여기 있는 것 중 따뜻한 건 너뿐이야.'
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로카의 크롬 손등에 있는 눈이 그에게 인사한다. 그는 팔을 바닥에 내리친다. 눈은 태연하게 자신은 떠날 수 없다고 말한다.
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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.