One thing that I have pondered recently in vore-esque scenarios is the preys taste, and how much the pred’ likes them (this seems to be case with me). It seems to make a bamboozling amount of sense as well, as I feel the better they taste the more the pred wants to savour them and keep them close, while if they taste bad they’ll just spit them out.
I have also found that this can actually be funny as well. Because if the pred’ spends quality vore time with a myriad of their friends then assuming they talk about it, they might suspect that the amount of mawplay suspiciously seems to correlate with how much they enjoy their company. Which I just find funny especially when one of the prey is a tsundere, it’s very cute.