Plastic Sea (ZH) — What's Left, Page 10
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第1格：Roka和Bamya坐在黄色板条箱下，面朝大海；Bamya拿着鱼比较大的一半。Bamya：「为什么要偷老奶奶的东西？」「反正她会给你吃的。」 第2格：Roka嚼着鱼，望向大海，脸上的笑容消失了。Roka：「正因为如此。」「要是她给我，我就欠她的了。」 第3格：Bamya歪了歪头。Bamya：「所以呢？」Roka侧面朝向镜头：「所以我谁也不欠。」
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Roka在海边和Bamya分享鱼，并解释说他偷东西是为了永远不欠任何人的。
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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.