It was a strange technique, and one which showed her more than others that in the completed combat form of the art, each King was more a component of a line in a more complex dance. The darting carp were not creatures of power but fright, she sent them out in panicking schools, where they would swarm and obscure the motions of others. Empty and blown up with the phantom of threat, to trigger defenses, trip ambushes, and take attention and blows. This was their basic function
As the stupid, prideful River God, least descendant of dragons, was cajoled and flattered into fulfilling the Spider Gods schemes.
It was very much not in her usual style, but there was definitely something to be said of 'scouting in force'.