The Coxien leaped back at this, tilting it's body as it was hit and preening, the other Coxiens wriggled forward, clearly no stranger to a female's saliva. More tentacles were shot into the air, about nine of them; they waved about, then swung forward to her body opened little gaps in the webbing where they pricked her with the toxins that were so effective against her comrade, then swung back again. They repeated this movement, prickling her, then moving back, yet not making any move against her.