"What are you doing?" Eliot asked the moment he regained consciousness, finding a young girl leaning so close he could practically feel her breath on his face.
"Oh, you're awake," the person said, pulling back to reveal a face that immediately set Eliot on high alert.
"It's you," he said with a frown, recognition dawning as he recalled the girl from the auxiliary world—the abnormally beautiful girl he had encountered there, who had only spoken to him once.
"You remember me?" she asked, frowning in the exact same way she had done in that world.
"Shouldn't I?" Eliot replied. She stared at him for a long moment before touching her face. Something peeled right off to reveal... her face again. Still the same face—nothing had changed at all.
"Was that supposed to alter your appearance?" Eliot asked, guessing at its purpose.
"It DOES alter my appearance, but for some reason it just doesn't work on you," she answered before storing the item away.
