Plastic Sea (KO) — What's Left, Page 38
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패널 1: 밝은 햇살 아래, 판카르가 갑판 해치에서 나와 로카의 옷깃을 잡아 끌고 나온다. 투르프가 뒤따른다. 로카는 오른팔을 재킷 안에 숨긴 채다. 로카: ‘놔!’ 패널 2: 갑판원들이 힐끗 쳐다봤다가 시선을 돌리고 계속 일하는 사이, 경비병들이 로카를 난간으로 끌고 간다. 투르프: ‘볼 거 없어.’ ‘일이나 계속해.’ 패널 3: 판카르가 로카의 옷깃을 잡아 들어 올려 붉은 난간 너머 탁 트인 바다 위로 휘두른다.
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판카르가 로카를 해치에서 끌어내 갑판을 가로질러 끌고 가는 동안 일꾼들은 시선을 돌린다. 그런 다음 난간 너머 바다 위로 그를 휘두른다.
About this chapter
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.