Aftermath
It was only when Lara had exited Strahov, did she realize how cold it was. The majority of the time she had been in a car or indoors but now the sub-zero temperatures made her shiver, it wasn't a good day to be wearing a crop-top and cargo shorts. She knew that she couldn't take refuge from the biting temperatures in a coffee shop, not with a pistol clearly visible on her hip, nor did she want to. Lara had other things on her mind, after killing Eckhardt and destroying the Sleeper she hadn't been able to find Kurtis. Karel revealed his true form and transformed himself into people whom she had encountered since Paris, Bouchard, Luddick,...Kurtis. Surprise and anger had swept over her when she saw Karel take Kurtis' form, had the mysterious Lux Veritatis agent whom she had grown accustomed to been a fabrication of the last of the Nephili all along? This was exactly the reason that she had smirked when she saw the Chirugai lying in a puddle of blood," At least he was real" she thought to herself. When the Chigurai became active and vanished into the darkness she knew that it was returning to Kurtis and that she had to find him.
Finally she made it back to the car she had stolen back in Paris to get to Prague, it's previous owner an assassin hired by Louis Bouchard to kill her certainly didn't need it. Driving down the street she could hear the sounds of sirens in the distance, she had doubted that an explosion inside Strahov would've escape the public eye and she needed to move, after all she was still wanted by the police in connection to The Monstrum killings, just because she had killed Eckhardt didn't mean she was no longer a fugitive, after all Eckhardt wasn't a suspect. Stopping at a hotel by the Old Prague Square, she stored her weapons in a hidden compartment in the back seat she had found by chance earlier on and bought a room with some of the money she had left from Paris. Lara didn't want to return to Croft Manor just yet, she felt that if she stuck around Prague for just a while longer something would come up. Stepping into the bathroom she turned on the hot water tap for the porcelain bathtub and stepped out of her combat gear she had worn since Paris. The shorts were new and not so bad but she had worn her crop-top for three days now. Stepping into the hot water she let herself relax and let the water do it's magic. "Pure bliss!" she thought as the rising steam left condensation on the mirror on the wall. After her bath Lara ordered food from room-service and managed to get someone to take her dirty clothes away to be dry-cleaned. Lara only had a hundred euros left to spend as the rest was needed to get back home, and she needed to get some new warm clothing items, she didn't want to catch her death of cold now did she. She smirked to herself at the thought of world renowned adventurer Lara Croft, defeater of Atlantean gods and demons dying of hypothermia. The thought quickly left her mind as she trudged wearily to bed.
The next morning Lara rose at eleven o'clock and left to buy the clothes she needed in the square. In the end Lara had bought a woolly sheepskin army surplus bomber jacket with a thick wool jumper underneath and pair of urban camouflage cargo pants. She hated shopping in old second hand shops but she had to conserve her dwindling supply of money in order to get back home. The journey was long back to England, five hours stuck in the airport, plus the long flight back to London. The car was there to pick her up at Gatwick and she departed for Croft Manor." I'll be back for you Kurtis" she thought "All I need is the right money and resources and I will find you". She needed to get back to Paris immediately, somehow in her mind she knew that Kurtis would go there. She went to her armory immediately and got her trusty dual pistols, if only she'd known what she had to go through she would have have packed them along with her denim jacket too. While packing away some other combat gear, ammo, flares, med packs etc. Into an old leather suitcase, Winston entered " Going so soon mi'lady?" he inquired, "Winston I need to get to Paris, call Zip in New York and tell him to meet me there" Lara answered, "It is time to find Kurtis". "Who is Kurtis mi'lady?" Winston asked confused but Lara had other things on her mind, the search was on.