Chapter Title: In the Beginning
Prompt: communication
Chapter Summary: Lara is scarily competent at what she does.
Partially inspired by how Lara somehow figuring multiple language out from a few inscriptions is a thing that happens across multiple games.
Sam enjoys a good mystery or two. It's her favourite genre of book, so long as it isn't the incessant body is found in an improbable and windswept location, some hardbitten detective investigates and probably has an affair by the end of the book formula. Luckily, her housemate is alive and well as a college student can be. As a living person, there is a degree of inconvenience not found in a book - Sam can't read her in the bath, for one - but Lara ...
Lara is ... well. Lara is quite honestly the only polyglot that Sam knows. Sure, she knows people who speak three or four languages, even fluently, but Lara takes the minor nobility practice of Latin and French and maybe German to break into the other half of the European market and runs with it. She learns new languages like Sam learns new editing techniques. She learns old languages just to argue with her professors about the translations they make. (Sam had been waiting to go to lunch and witnessed that one play out first hand. She'd missed lunch, for the record. Lara was quite apologetic.) She learns new languages that have the geek crowd eating out the palm of her hand simply by having reruns playing in the background.
Which is why it's such a mystery that she cannot get texting. Screen sizes are increasing, yes - her father's company is making money out of just that fact. But half an inch is no excuse for replying in letterplate. Sam might well have murdered her by now if they didn't have a system of code words active.