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Lara approaches the hot air balloon to find the basket
empty1. Assuming that Sophia was going
to make a slow getaway in this basket, Lara climbs aboard.
Lara reaches up and fires up the burner and the balloon
immediately begins to gain altitude. The evening offshore winds blow
the balloon west, back across the English Channel toward
London.
Lara pulls off her backpack and slumps down into the basket of
the hot-air balloon. She sits, leaning against the wall of the basket
and reaches into her backpack to pull out the Hand of
Rathmore.
"Quite a lot of trouble you little buggers have caused us," Lara
remarks. As she allows the artifact to fall back into her backpack.
She leans her head back and enjoys the silent ride back to London.
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