Consequently, Ren settled on an intermediate protocol to save some stress.
He would proactively deny Moosh any absolute administrative access to his mind or memories whenever the exhausted beast finally woke up from its coma… Just some segmented access with the same excuse of hiding any private matters with the girls.
This was absolutely not an accusation, nor was it intended as a punishment; it was a necessary precaution. Ren would firmly close that specific, vulnerable sector of their ethereal tether, the deep connection that allowed the mushroom to casually read his most intimate, unfiltered thoughts whenever it wanted to catch up on current events.
He would maintain this mental firewall at least until the hypothetical day they finally breached the third vault and he could listen to the rest of the engineer's encrypted briefing.
Furthermore, there was a brilliant, built-in diagnostic test embedded within this precaution.
