Fang is happy for the assistance and grabs the hand. Once his strong tail is free, he uses that to bounce out of the snowdrift.

"Thanks," he says. "... Whaddya mean about the timing? Do these guys normally dump people in snowdrifts the size of small mountains?!" He had just barely absorbed the information from the Data Point and had started to walk off to process it when he had fallen in the snowdrift.