Prologue
The darkness swam over her like a black veil, it was as if every inch of the catacomb had fell into the empty night sky. Lara took a deep breath; she was used to ancient trickery such as this, and never let it overcome her. She reached for her Personal Light Source which was firmly gripped onto the front strap of her backpack, as she pressed the device; the walls of the thin corridor were immediately illuminated. Lara noticed the unlit torches that were sitting on the top of the shelves above her.
She continued down the route, somewhat anxious about this new found abnormality, as her years of raiding tombs has taught her, light disappearing for seemingly no reason was never a good sign. As she walked she held her pistol at the side of her waist next to its holster, she wished that the light extending from her PLS was perhaps a little more powerful, as it only managed to show her the edges of the corridor a few feet in front of her, leaving the rest to the imagination.
Eventually, through the light of the PLS and darkness up ahead, she saw a greyish white glow floating far ahead of her, almost reminiscent of a ghost. Although Lara was tempted, she was not reckless enough to run the rest of the way up to the source of this mystery, but she did quicken her pace and extended her arm to bring her gun steadily in front of her.
As she got closer and closer to the glow, the air around her seemed to become denser, it felt as though she was being plunged into deep water. When she was only a few steps away from it, realising that there was no immediate danger, she holstered her pistol. The glowing object in question was still impossible to identify, it was about the same size as a child's hand, and was lodged into a crevice in the wall, however the light protruding from its body obscured all vision.
Lara leaned in, squinting her eyes, before she realised that her face was right up against the glow, it was then she noticed that the atmosphere was growing ever denser and she had begun to host a growing sense of impending doom at the pit of her stomach.
Suddenly a loud crashing sound echoed through the corridor, as if something extremely heavy had just dropped. The feeling in Lara's stomach intensified, it was fight or flight, and flight was not an option.
She grabbed hold of the mysterious object and attempted to yank it out of its place, but it seemed to be connected through a magnetic force to the wall. Lara wasn't giving up, she grabbed hold of it with both her hands, put her foot flat against the wall for extra strength, and heaved as powerfully as she could.
Snap!
The stone snapped out of the walls clutches, and Lara flew backwards with it.
Click, Clack
Just as she was picking herself up, the sound of mechanisms came from underneath her feet. The floor seemed to quickly be losing its strength, Lara had a split second to notice the seam running through the platform she was on before it split.
It took Lara all the bravery she could muster at this surprise situation to not scream, she fell down a pitch black and seemingly endless drop. She held the stone firm to her chest as she fell, curling into a ball position.
Before she knew it, her entire body suffered a hard collision against the bottom of the pit, and she heard the sickening sound of her bones being crunched, and her flesh torn apart.
She had a few seconds to see the blurred vision of the stone she had so powerfully battered against. But then her eyes closed of their own accord.
It was darkness, she was in deep slumber, no feeling or thought could ever pass through such an empty dead brain, nothing in the world mattered. Did time pass? It was impossible to tell, this could have started one second ago, or it could have started an eternity ago.
Then came light, it was tiny, miniscule, but extremely bright, and growing wider and wider.
Wider, Wider, Wider.