Laura Croft did not take her words to heart. After all, the woman had said far too many nonsensical things. Aside from initially warning her to avoid the invisible cleaners here, she had shown no knowledge or ability that could help them leave this place. By comparison, Laura was more interested in the story recorded in the archives and the drink in the pot, which was about to turn from ice and chocolate into hot cocoa. "Would you like some cocoa?" she asked. "Or would you prefer a bedtime story?"
"Some cocoa." The woman immediately sat up. She still had not taken off her ridiculous eye mask, its two absurd Impressionist eyeballs rolling wildly about. Though she tried hard to reach for the thermos in Laura Croft's hand, she seemed to have forgotten how she had stuffed her arms into the sleeping bag. After struggling for a while, she lay back down. "And a bedtime story. I love listening to stories."
"This is a horror story. It took place in the West Frankish Kingdom and had something to do with a member of the Carolingian Royal Family. After this incident, Otto I of the Saxon Dynasty of the East Frankish Kingdom, King of Germany, became the first emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. After the West Frankish Kingdom fell, Pope John XII crowned the first emperor of the Holy Roman Empire in Rome. The Holy Roman Emperor became Rome's protector and emperor, as well as the supreme ruler of the Roman Catholic world."
Whenever her professional field was involved, Laura Croft became visibly animated, paying no attention to the increasingly faint breathing of the woman beside her. "But several decades before that, in 911, Louis IV, the last king of the Carolingian Royal Family, also known as Louis the Child,