Plastic Sea (KO) — What's Left, Page 6
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패널 1: 늙은 라하나의 생선 좌판: 파란 상자들, 줄에 걸린 은빛 생선들, 빛바랜 분홍색 우산. 비버는 병뚜껑 목걸이를 벗어 카운터 너머로 늘어뜨리고 있고, 덩치 큰 카박은 그녀 뒤에 서 있다. 비버: ‘이거랑 생선 두 마리요?’ 라하나: ‘그런 잡동사니로? 지느러미 하나.’ 패널 2: 좌판 뒤에서 빨간 테이프를 감은 구부러진 포크를 든 손이 건조용 줄에서 생선 한 마리를 들어 올린다. 패널 3: 라하나가 삼지창을 들고 홱 돌아선다. 뿌연 눈이 이글거린다. 라하나: ‘로카! 이 꼬마 갈매기!’
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비버가 병뚜껑 목걸이를 늘어뜨려 늙은 라하나와 흥정하는 동안, 빨간 테이프를 감은 구부러진 포크를 든 손이 생선을 들어 올리고, 라하나는 소리치며 홱 돌아선다.
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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.