vonbaghager replied to your post:Veei evolved from earlier cave dwelling forms that...
Wouldn’t consuming prey poisoned by them mean they’re endlessly eating their own waste again and again?
Yup. It just becomes more concentrated. Some constituents degrade in the chemical reaction of breaking down flesh (not the toxic fluid’s only purpose, just a side effect) to create inert byproducts, so technically less is left over than is injected, but it just gets reabsorbed, filtered and concentrated. Early Veei also expressed anger by shooting it and could also develop stones in their palps from the poison getting so thick it solidified (which often ended up in loss of that palp’s functionality as a weapon), whereas Veei currently extrude the nasty stuff every now and then as an act of self-maintenance, having long become civilized to the point of never squirting it at people when they are angry.
The stones are not unheard of, however, though they tend to manifest lower in the digestive system allowing them to be passed by regurgitation (not pretty!) though if these stones form in a palp they can agitate and infect the tissue and cause loss of hearing (since their tympanic membranes are located just under the skin of each palp, about 3-4 small ones every few inches).