Nothing unexpected

Sam was surprisingly strong for such a petite girl, dragging Lara behind a crumbling wall before rounding on her, "Talk." The dark woods seemed to shift and whisper in the wind, Lara didn't like being out of the firelight at all, "Sam could we just leave it-" She was silenced by Sam's glare. "Don't you dare bullshit me Lara, I've lived with you for the past four years and I think I know your body pretty well. What. Happened." Resenting the cold dark but cowed by Sam's determination, Lara grudgingly crossed her arms against the chill.

"I... I don't know. I just... there was a cave a-and these statues and I was really thirsty and..." Sam grabbed her by the shoulders and gave her a shake, "Lara! Get a grip! Start with the shipwreck, what happened to you after that?" She's right, I'm a babbling mess. What's wrong with me? Gritting her teeth, Lara took a deep breath and began more confidently, "I... I think I was conscious when I came to shore. I remember seeing you further up with the others but something... someone, knocked me out. The next thing I remember I was hanging in a cave..."

"-pulled myself out of the ruin and started looking for you. That pretty much sums it up." Unlike their usual conversations, Sam had been mostly quiet through the whole story, interjecting every so often to ask questions. It was somewhat unnerving not knowing how Sam was taking all this, her silence was strange enough and the darkness prevented Lara from accurately reading her expression. There was a long pause that Lara felt compelled to break, "Please say something?"

"So let me get this straight." Sam replied after a moment, "You've been running around the whole island, exploring tombs while the rest of us were worried sick, until in the last one you drank something that made your boobs grow three sizes?" Lara shifted uncomfortably, "it's more like two-"

Sam grunted angrily but took a deep breath and seemed to be reigning in her anger, "Ok... even if that last part is true, and it's a pretty big stretch to believe it Lara, why were you hiding to begin with? The people here mean us no harm, they're just shipwrecked like we are!" Lara shook her head frantically, glancing back towards the campfire, "No Sam! These people are not what you think, they're trying to round us up. I saw one of their patrols earlier, they were carrying machine guns and they said Mathias was their leader!" She was almost as surprised as Sam when she said the words but she remembered now, the men had definitely said 'Mathias' and they had seemed frightened.

"What? Why? How?" Lara's sudden intensity seemed to get through to Sam and she nervously eyed the surrounding forest, "I don't know why they're doing it, maybe there's a military compound or something on the island, but these are not good people Sam. I saw them shoot at someone on the beach! We need to stay hidden 'til we know more." Sam's mouth hung open and it was gratifying that she still believed in her best friend. Lara's confidence was starting to return, along with the increasingly familiar adrenaline buzz, "We should sneak away while we can and watch from a distance." Sam bit her lip, uncertain but worried. "If I'm wrong, we can meet up with Mathias later! We should try to find the others and warn them!"