in the morning light; confusion

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When the world once again came alight, the girl was attacked by a splitting headache. Then slowly a silhouette came into focus. It was humanoid for sure but it didn't look like anything she had seen before. As it became clearer what the silhouette belonged to her confusion only grew. What was this thing standing in front of her? It most certainly wasn't a woman. Could it be? She coughed involuntarily causing the figure to fix its attention on her.

"What are you?" she managed to croak. The figure looked at her quizzically.

"What are you?" it asked.

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