Plastic Sea (KO) — What's Left, Page 33
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패널 1: 로카의 크롬 오른손을 가까이 보여 준다. 손을 들어 올리자 눈이 빙글빙글 돌아가며 어두컴컴한 화물칸을 살핀다. Tohum: '불빛도 없어. 기계도 없어.' '내가 얼마나 잔 거지?' 패널 2: 로카가 고물 더미에 등을 기대며 뒤로 물러난다. 크롬 팔을 몸에서 멀리 떨어뜨리고 있다. Roka: '내가 그걸 어떻게 알아?!' Tohum: '성공했어?' 패널 3: 혼란스러워하는 로카의 얼굴을 가까이 보여 준다. Roka: '대체 뭐가 성공했다는 거야?' Tohum: '인간들은 전부 죽었어?'
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로카가 들어 올린 크롬 오른손의 눈이 어두운 화물칸을 둘러보며 성공했냐고 묻는다. 고물 더미에 등을 기댄 로카는 무슨 말인지 전혀 모른다.
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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.