What does “it” refer to in the sentence? I put my pants on and I went out onto the back porch and spit over the handrail, and it was a yellowish brown, and my body pulsed with a warm obtuse ache from my eyelids to my fingertips. The ache was inside my body too, an all-encompassing type of pain like my whole skin was made out of a fat lip. What does “it” refer to in “it was a yellowish brown”? Does it refer to his spit? Thanks!