Chapter 2: A Dream
Lara had reached a large building with detailed sculptures working there way around the brick walls. She would have marveled it's beauty if every building in England didn't look like it. She entered the two front doors finding herself standing on a shiny tiled floor in the main hall. In one of the corners of the room was a wooden desk with an old women sitting at it. She was wearing glasses and typing on a computer with no emotions drawn on her face. Lara raised an eye brow as she walked up to the women asking
"Excuse me sorry to bother you but do you happen to know where the meeting area for the England publishers is?" The women smiled at her and told her that it was down the hall and to her right. Lara said her thanks and went her way. After reaching the room she saw one women and two men sitting at a large table wearing business suits. Lara stepped in and sat across from them. She seem to be more interested in the large window that was up behind them. Starring out into the horizon one of the men began to talk
"Hello Ms. Croft?" Lara turned his way with a smile and answered
"How do you do?" The man began to talk once again
"Now Ms. Croft we are here to discuss with you about your new journal which bye the way everyone seems to love!" Lara laughed and continued to listen to the man.
"Now what we really need to discuss is what you plan on doing next. We really don't mind what you come up with your basically are reasoning becoming a publishing company! But if anything has crossed your mind now would be the time to share that with us. Has anything crossed your mind?" Lara studied his face for a bit to try and figure out what he was thinking but could not read his expressions that well. She breathed deeply thinking of a possible story. She then raised an eye brow with a smirk and said
"Well I am kind of working on something." The man's face brightened as he asked what it was.
"Well I had been having this dream but it's not like it is a dream." The three people across the table began to look confused. Lara continued
"Hmm it's not that confusing really. Have you ever had a dream where it seemed so real you begin to wonder?" The man leaned back into his chair and said blankly
"Ms. Croft I really don't see how all of this-" Lara quickly cut him of with her British accent.
"In the dream was a stone a women and a shadow! I believe the stone is real! I think I can go out and find it and bring it back I just don't know what it is?" The women that sat across Lara brushed her short blond hair out of her blue eyes and giggled. Lara frowned back "What is so funny may I ask?" The women kept a wide smile and said
"It's just all so interesting." But with that the women began to laugh with the others. Lara got up placing her hands on her hips frowning at all of them and said very angrily
"Fine I don't need your help I'm totally capable of doing this project on my own!" And with that Lara walked out and slammed the door behind her hoping to never return there again.
Once she was outside she hopped onto her motor cycle and drove of back to her home. Once there she parked her motor cycle near the main assault coarse and walked in through the back door into the kitchen. The music was still racing through every room possible. Lara shut the door behind her and walked into the ball room and turned the music off she then decided she would go for a dip because she felt dreadful at the moment. Once she was in her pool room she began to take her clothing off until she was in the nude. She then dived into the pool feeling as light as a small desert sand particle being pushed bye calming Egyptian winds. Rolling and swirling with in the crystal clear water she herd a noise from the surface a soft ringing. She swam to the surface to hear the phone ringing. She yelled out to her butler "Winston can you get that for me!" And soon the phone was silent. Lara stepped out of the warm water into the chilling air raising Goosebumps all over her skin. She quickly found a towel and rapped it around her body for warmth. Then made her way to the main hall where Winston was holding the phone.
He placed it into her hands and walked of outside. Lara then began her conversation "Hello?"
"Hey baby!" Lara's eyes rolled as she answered back
"What do you want chase?" "Hey what's with you ant as happy as you usually are?"
"Nothing Iv just been having a bad day so you called for something?"
"Yah well I was you know on the internet and found something out. There's like this stone right and well it has powers that can change the soul!" Lara began to think to herself could this be the stone from my dreams? Lara then answered
"Oh really tell me more about this artifact and how you discovered it."
"Well like I said I was on the internet and came to this website called The Lost. I guess it gives information on artifacts that have been heard of but never found!" Lara once again began to talk with herself that's odd you think I would have found that website by now I mean Iv like seen every website that has to do with anything ancient.
"Thank you Chase I'll look into it."
"Wait a minute babe your not doing this on your own I'm tagging along here I told you of it so I get 50% here!"
"Ok Chase I'll call you later ok!"
"See you later Red"
"Bye Chase." Lara hung the phone up and laughed to herself Oh Chase what would I do with out you?
Lara soon found herself in front of the computer viewing the website. She read some information that amused her quite a bit. She found out that the artifact originally from Egypt and then brought to the Romans. They mistaken it for the philosopher stone and met there doom then. It was then found by a man named Herald Manson But he quickly died about two hundred years ago in England. The stone was never found again. The stone was to have a power that drived into your soul and make you whoever you wanted to become. It was almost like a shape shifting artifact. It was created by an Egyptian slave who so badly wanted to become faro. Of course the slave got what the wanted and the real faro was transferred into the slaves body! The stone must still be in England then…right? No that can't be it was never found again after that man died it had to of been taken bye someone. In my dream a woman had it but dropped it. Maybe the women was the mans wife? It never said anything about him been married! Hmm But that women seem to be of my own blood but who? Maybe tonight my dreams will speak more for me? Only time will tell…