[ someday, you will be taught modern things, evilbro. someday.

sam gives a tilt of his head, jerked towards the couch set up behind the coffee table covered in computer bits and futuristic monitors, to the side table, where his stack of notes are. kept in hard copy, because he absolutely does not trust this network. as he goes, sam explains bits about the latter part of that. ]

That right. Depends, first, on if you're a broodmate or just a nestmate. The broods are going to be more closely connected by nature than just nest. [ whether you like it or not, this is your new family. ]

Second, it's on how much or how little the host's accepting the symbiote connection. You can work on learning mental blocks and keep the others out, which a lot of people do. Or just let it be, and mental linking will be a lot easier. Up to you, but there's consequences with each.