Plastic Sea (ZH) — What's Left，第 25 页
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Panel 1：一道长长的影子落在 Roka 身上。他裹着防水布，靠在一个木桶旁，鸭子就在桶边。Turp 拿着船钩俯身逼近他；Pancar 站在后面。Turp：‘站起来，野狗。’ Panel 2：Pancar 把 Roka 拉起来；防水布滑落。Turp：‘船长的规矩。’‘我们从海里捞上来的东西，都得干活。’ Panel 3：Turp 用船钩指向一扇敞开的舱口，里面透出橙色的光。Turp：‘你转轮子，就有饭吃。’‘你停下来，就没饭吃。’ Panel 4：Pancar 把 Roka 推上通往下方的钢制楼梯；Roka 抓住栏杆，鸭子藏在他的夹克里。Turp：‘下一次钟响就开工。’
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守卫们把 Roka 拉起来，告诉他船长的规矩：凡是从海里捞上来的人，都得转轮子才能吃饭；Pancar 把他推下通往轮子的楼梯。
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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.