OOC: I apologize for the longer-than-average wait. This thread is getting exciting.
Delwyn's attention was fixed on the lip of the waterfall: hundreds upon hundreds of gallons of water pouring endlessly mere feet away from him. So distracted was he that when Harlowe landed against the boulder's side, Delwyn scarcely noticed. His eyes were transfixed on the gushing river. Then Harlowe cried for help.
The growing youth's attention snapped back into focus and he wheeled around, just in time to see his struggling friend barely managing to retain his footing. Without even a second to lose, Delwyn rushed forward, instinctively clamping his jaws down on the nape of Harlowe's neck. The force of the river was mighty, and the snow-colored young adolescent felt himself begin to slip forward as well. Heaving with all his might, he wrenched back, pulling the older male out of the water with only the greatest of effort.
Delwyn smiled happily, his relieved eyes shining into Harlowe's. His joy was short lived. From just upstream, a mighty surge of water barreled towards Delwyn's perilous position on the edge of the rock. A defeated look fell over him, as he simply said, "Oh." And then he was pounded into the river.
The fall from the waterfall was both incredibly fast and torturously slow. Time seemed to slow down as Delwyn drank in his surroundings as he was flung over the edge. And then he hit the water. The bitter-cold river swallowed the pup whole, as the crashing water hammered on him from above. Delwyn was a strong swimmer, but he was still only a pup. His lungs screamed for air as he struggled to swim out from the unfathomable pressure above. With his last, feeble kicks, he shot upwards from below the falls and arrived, gasping, at the water's surface.
Opening his eyes, he found that he had popped up on the opposite side of the waterfall: there was a cave hidden beneath it! Pulling himself out of the water and onto a dry surface, he gazed with astonishment into the cavern, completely overwhelmed by all the things that had happened in the last few seconds. Suddenly, almost manically, Delwyn burst out laughing.