Tormented Tarns spiders in your hair, spiders everywhere

A combination of curiosity and foreign scents is what draw him to this dreary, dank place. Having passed through here a couple times, he has found little to earn his attention. The tarns were true to its name. Most of it was water littered with strips of stable land crisscrossed throughout. Some of these strips could not handle the weight of a grown wolf. Of course, he found this out the hard way, having tested one such pathway himself...only to watch it crumble away into muck. And he with it! Now mud and algae caked his limbs and lower half as he traversed further inward. Getting dirty, he did not mind. Not so much as the feel of it. It made his fur heavy no matter how many times he tried to shake it out. Moreover, he smelled. Not terribly, but the smell was off-putting to the discriminating nose. And let's not forget the probability of god knows what lurking in those waters. Like carnivorous fish. Those were a thing, right? Well, whether they swam within these waters or not, Tatsuya was none too keen to test out that theory. He came here to get a lay of the land, not to feed any hellish amphibians.
INDENTHe's stuck around this long. All he has found thus far was a shit ton of spiderwebs and various insects. They liked to stay up in the canopy. Mostly insects that could not fly for extended periods of time, he noticed. For all these spiderwebs he kept running into (damn things), there was still an awful lot of insects skittering and buzzing about. Were the arachnids already plump from the smorgasbord? He pondered this as he trekked further in, watching where he stepped.
INDENTMovement – a flurry of many limbs – made him stop and analyze the source. It was a spider. Why am I not surprised. They cast their silk nets everywhere. This one, though – sitting motionlessly in the middle of a tree – had some peculiar colors and patterns. Tatsuya knew next to nothing about spiders, save for one. The brown recluse. This one lacked the subtle colors of it's venomous brethren, flamboyantly garbed. It stared at him with it's many, beady eyes. Raising a lip in disgust, he left it alone. It was not bothering him and – as much as he wanted to smash it just because it looked venomous – he was not willing to risk wading through dark waters just to get to it. Plus, it could easily climb up the tree just to avoid him. He moved on.
INDENTMinutes pass before he spots a shadow across the way. Canine from what he could tell. It was preoccupied with something he could not see. Tatsuya tried to find a path (or set of paths) over to her. Not an overly strenuous task. Approaching her from behind, he slowed his gait as the distance between them lessened. Nobody liked to be sneaked up on, so Tatsuya tried to announce himself. Not needed. The tawny-brown female noticed him, speaking words that sounded strained. Her choice of words were rather odd to boot, leaving conversation open ended and ill at ease. The Gamma was not about to let that color their meeting though.
INDENT“Awfully quick to be asking someone for their needs, miss,” he playfully spoke. She probably should not have left the conversation so open, though she could try to steer it back into an area of interest. “Why? What are you offering?” He adopted a convincing looked of curiosity, like he was perusing her many invisible wares.