That makes perfect sense; after all if someone stuck their fingers too close to Anwei's face while she was distracted, or about to sneeze, they would probably end up pulling back a stump or five.

"Most species with tentacles just would press four together to designate two arms and least and greatest fingers. The weirdest one I saw - I can't remember the species name - but they had just one tentacle, growing out of their front, and they insisted they didn't have any other limbs. Turned out their antlers were flexible, and they could glint with those, but it was totally taboo to discuss their antlers or even say they had them when they were about to shed them.

"So it would just stand there with its one tentacle pointing at you, and its antlers wriggling, and you would kind of roll one eye," she demonstrates, "to see what the antlers were saying."