Slime, devils and souls

So, the good news is that we found Jay's old friend Cat and killed an evil slime blob of death or whatever it was called. The bad news is we probably pissed of an Erinyes who wanted it alive. The devil went through the portal to the Nine Hells (Cat, the madman, tried to go with her but Jay managed to stop him) and closed it behind her. I would like to hope that was that, but something tells me this will come back to bite us in the ass. Also Cat had bargained off his soul to that devil - which probably is what happened to Laina. We found a couple of magical trinkets, but nothing really exciting. I thought we should leave it behind, but the others wanted promptly to steal it. Actually Daar seemed very eager to take the stuff, I wonder if she is alright?
 
Ah well, at least we weren't instantly murdered, got our gold (this is so much money I hardly know what to make of it!) and sailed up to a cloudy Waterdeep harbour. Cat seemed very taken and distraught by the whole ordeal, which I suppose is normal. Jay tried to make him think of other things by speaking of old memories. I must confess it made me a bit... not jealous, I'm happy she found her friend... but sad, maybe, that all my old friends are gone and I have no one here to be nostalgic with.
 
Daar has invited her family for dinner tonight, which apparently included Jay's two friends and the entire crew of Aurora. That is really nice and all, and I really want to meet Daar's family properly, and it's good to have the crew around, especially Bree and Annie. But still, all these people are new to me. They are my friends, yes, but sometimes I feel I barely know them. I miss Denyeses court terribly times like this, but not as bad as I miss The Unruly, and Hardhulen most of all. If I could invite anyone to the dinner it would be him. He would probably embarrass me with stories of when I was a new deckhand and barely knew a larks head from a bowline knot, steal food from my plate and then dance on his clunky peg leg all night. I also really wish I had mom here. I have barely seen her a day since I got back, it feels like. Being able to send her messages feels good, I know she can tell me if something troubles her and I know I can get there fairly quick. But I don't think the Harpers would appreciate us using their teleportation circles for getting her to dinner...
 
I wonder how Drogo, Narvi and Tograk feels about it all. But they seem like fairly solitary men, all of them. Maybe they don't have use of family and friends the same way? Some people are like that, I suppose.