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Plastic Sea — What's Left, Página 35

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Panel 1: Seen from behind Roka, his chrome right arm rises from his shoulder and the eye on the back of the hand stares at him. Tohum: 'I'm going to kill all of you.' Panel 2: Close on Roka's pale, sweating face, lit cyan from below. Tohum: 'Just not today.' 'I'm very tired.'

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From behind Roka, his chrome right hand rises before his face and its eye says it will kill all humans; reverse shot of his terrified face as it adds, just not today.

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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.