Editor's note: this story contains scenes of non-consensual or reluctant sex.
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"Why is this camera so. damn. heavy?" Ida complains to herself as every step up the mountain feels heavier and heavier with that thing hanging around her neck. The path is steep, but her will is strong. Looking back down to where she came from, a small village that took her in for this journey, she knows she must be close because of how far up she is. Having trekked in worse places, she picks herself up and keeps pressing through the muddy path. She is too far up for any larger trees to grow, but the mountain is still covered in plenty of grass and smaller bushes and plants that are still plenty enough to scratch up her arms and legs which are mostly exposed because she deemed it too warm to wear longer clothes . And just as her legs feel like they are about to fail her she sees it: what looks like a collection of boulders piled against the wall of an indent in the mountain.
"Finally" she exclaims with relief, and the sight of her goal grants her the boost to stay on her feet for now. Walking up to the rocks, Ida looks around for an opening somewhere. "It's gotta be around here somewhere..." she murmurs to herself. Unable to find one at the bottom, she starts climbing the boulders to search further up since they seem to lay stable enough that she can walk on them. Being rather short, even the smaller rocks are a bit challenging to climb, but she can bear her own weight quite easily since she's also rather light. The boulders lay firmly, and after just a few minutes of rummaging around the pile, Ida manages to locate an opening that she can squeeze through where two larger rocks rest against each other. Shimmying sideways past the boulders, Ida finds herself before just a hole in the mountain itself. With no real hesitation, she gets down in her stomach and crawls into the darkness with only a small flashlight in her mouth to light the way.
Ida can only imagine the bruises she will have later, but keeps going nonetheless. She can feel the temperature drop and the rock beneath her get damper as she crawls deeper into the mountain. Ida soon reaches what seems to be the end of the tunnel, and as she pops her head out she drops her flashlight and it falls. And falls. And keeps falling, until she can hear a faint splash at the bottom. Looking down, she can still see the light in the water as it gets dimmer and dimmer. "It seems so sink quite far, so the water should be deep enough. I hope." Pulling herself out until her upper body is outside of the hole, Ida manages to sit upright with her face against the wall. Grabbing a few rocks sticking out above her head, she pulls her lower body out of the hole and stands with her feet at the bottom of the tunnel. "Here's to hoping this camera really is waterproof" Ida mutters to herself before jumping away from the wall, falling straight down into the dark pit with her hands tucked to her sides.