What's that in the shadows?

It was so difficult to get a good look at the center of the pool and she thought she had a good enough footing to lean closer to get a better look, but apparently she over estimated how sure that footing was. She went tumbling forward with a hard gasp, immediately trying to paddle against the current and get herself back to shore. It swept her away so quickly that she hardly had time to react, her vision swirling as she was spun and tossed by the swirling water. She pulled in a breath and held it as she was tugged further in and down into the water, swallowing her up before she could really even process what was happening.

At some point in her descent the sting of pain as something scratched her foreleg, but that was hardly a concern compared to the water surrounding her as she was brought down and down further still. At some point right as she was beginning to think she might drown, she crashed into another pool at the bottom of the waterfall she had traveled down, landing in frigid water that shocked her system even further. She bobbed to the surface with a sputtering gasp, flailing a bit as she regained her bearings and swam quickly to the shore. Pulling herself onto the hard floor of the cave, she shook herself off as best as she could and looked around as she shivered lightly, noticing the wolf that had guided her here doing the same. She would have thought that all of this was malicious somehow with this slate wolf guiding her knowing this would happen, but with the way she was looking around she wasn't sure if that was true.

Of course the first thing she looked for was a path out of here or some kind of exit, but all she saw was walls of ice. She stepped closer to them, looking at the carvings and drawings and hoping that they might lead her to something useful. While the carvings themselves were difficult to follow and decipher, her examinations did make her notice a crack in the ice. She wasn't the smallest wolf she knew, but she was certainly on the smaller side and slender so perhaps she might be able to slip though if there was something on the other side. She peered in, trying to see if this was actually an opening or not, but with no other alternatives obvious to her she glanced back to see if her guide was following and then began to try and carefully squeeze through the gap.

ooc: Picking the dexterity option!

"Briar Carpathius"