002 [Video]

[lady_adventure]

[Lara comes onscreen, and she looks tired. Tired and disheveled. Tired and disheveled with some cuts and bruises.

But mostly so, so tired. Perhaps a better word would be "beat" or "disheartened."]

... I was wrong.




About leaving, to clarify. The Initiative is ... well-protected. But to be fair I am not often wrong.

[She gives a sigh.]

... I am going to explore the area, then. See what has happened to my homeland.

Comments

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[trustycrowbar]

Wasn't as easy as you thought, was it?

[The voice isn't taunting. If anything it sounds sympathetic.]

What did you do, exactly? To be frank, you look like hell.

Video

[lady_adventure]

I never thought it was easy. It simply wasn't as doable as I had thought.

I attempted to infiltrate and shoot. They had bigger guns.

[trustycrowbar]

...

You tried to infiltrate... the Hold?

[Why didn't he find out about this before?! He works there! Usually one-woman armed assaults aren't glossed over in the morning memos!]

[lady_adventure]

Yes I did.

[Well, apparently she wasn't a real threat ...]

[trustycrowbar]

Are--are you insane? You're lucky they didn't throw your ass in cryostorage or something!

[lady_adventure]

I was skillful. A large difference from luck.

[trustycrowbar]

If they had the time to tilt their proverbial guns at you, then obviously you weren't skillful enough.

[For god's sake Lara! There's a reason he's working on the inside instead of snooping and raiding! He's gone up in a one-man-army against the entire fucking Combine, and even he knows better than to pull that shit here--]