"Hey, no," Cole protested. "This thing is top of the line, dude. I spent a grand on this. It<span style="font-style: italic">better</span>not be shit." The revelation of the equipment's obscene pricing was enough to make it clear why he sounded offended at the suggestion, but before he could ramble on any further, he heard rocks tumbling, Kelly cursing, and the other two guys helping her out. He arched a brow, and gave another test to the cave's possible interference cause as Joaquin idly mentioned the rocks.<br/><br/>Just as before, waving the lens away cleared the picture, while focusing on the cave caused distortion. He had to know why. Momentarily turning off the camera, he gently set it aside and returned their not-so-local wildlife to their carrying cases, repeating a needless "Stay" to each one he loaded back into the truck. With the tanks safely placed in the bed, he nabbed his camera again and turned it back on, walking over to the fallen stones.<br/><br/>Kelly had meanwhile continued to lay in the sand, defeated. She had no intention of getting up herself, but Loris was kind enough to lend a literal hand. "Yeah," She unhappily responded, taking his offered hand to pull herself up. "I just hate rocks, is all." Emphasizing the dryly delivered words, she kicked aside a small pebble that had fallen near her when the cave's mouth collapsed and reopened.<br/><br/>Letting go, she took hold of her flannel and shook it about, sending the sand caught on her back all over the place. Her hair soon followed, and once she was more free of dust, she chimed in. "Maybe. Something magnetic? Might be messing with the signal, I dunno." She recalled seeing a demonstration of magnetism screwing with old TV screens in the past, but she knew little about how modern cameras worked.<br/><br/>While they discussed possibilities, Cole had arrived, pointing his camera directly into the cave's mouth. The distortion grew to visually crippling levels just outside it, but when aimed into the dark hole in the ground, it returned to complete clarity. Something was causing this, and he wanted to know what. "Maybe there is," He said in response to Joaquin. "One way to find out."<br/><br/>With that, he approached the cave and stepped in, sitting down to slide into the relatively small entrance. He landed inside after going over a ledge about as tall as he was, entering a shaft that continued on deeper into the ground. It was wider than he expected, and had a somewhat steep slope going downward. After some fiddling, he turned on the flashlight of the camera, and called out to the others. "Yo, it's big in here!" Waiting a few moments, he began to walk toward the sloping path, shining his light down into it to see what might be down there.<br/><br/>Kelly stared blankly at the cave's entrance for a few minutes after Cole went in, glancing at the other two. "So, uh. He expecting us to go in too?" Spelunking hadn't been on the list of things she wanted to do that day, especially not in an outcropping that had been so fragile it fell open with the removal of a single stone. But, she was curious, and the others weren't going in yet. With a huff, she sat down on the edge of the entryway herself, then slid inside and landed on her ass. She cursed loudly on impact, but got up herself this time to take a look around.