Paititi. The hidden city as the game's primary social world — a civilization that survived by becoming inaccessible, that maintained its culture and its secrets by staying buried. The legends it holds are not silent because they are lost. They are silent because the city has been protecting them from the world that would misuse them. Lara arrives and starts digging, which is what she does, which is also what Trinity does, which is the game's ongoing discomfort with the archaeologist as hero.

The screaming is what happens when the protected thing encounters the outside world — the specific violence of revelation, the past forced into the present before the present is ready for it.