Am I a human dreaming I'm a butterfly
or a butterfly dreaming I'm a human?Zhuang Zhou
Scene One: Through the Screen
INT. ANCIENT CRYPT – NIGHT (IN-GAME)
Dust swirls through beams of torchlight. The echo of gunfire fades. Stone walls bear bullet scars and ancient carvings.
LARA CROFT stands amid the ruin—breathing hard, sweat and blood streaking her face. Her twin pistols hang loosely in her hands, barrels smoking faintly.
The silence is thick. A crow caws somewhere beyond the collapsed archway.
Lara lowers one pistol. Something in the air hums—faintly electrical. She looks around, confused. Then, slowly, she looks up. Directly into the player’s view.
LARA
(quietly, almost to herself)
Who… are you?