"I'd be jealous, if I honestly thought I could sit still long enough for that much reading." Before Yamatai, she could have done it, Lara thought. Before Sam had decided that serious student Lara Croft needed to be taken out of herself. Before fights to the death with ancient queens, deathless guards, and insane cults. Before a lot of things.

Now she tended to twitch when things were quiet. "I mean, I'd love to try. But I'm not really set up to be a scholar anymore."