Well, I suppose this answers the question of where you disappeared to. Everyone on Serenity is fine. Zoe's keeping the ship in the area you disappeared in but they've managed to find a couple local jobs and Jayne has refrained from mutinying thusfar.
[Mal] Can we trust these people? Paige seems to be well-intentioned, I'm pretty sure she saved my life today, but...demons? Earth-that-was? Is this some kind of trick? My first impulse was to take River and leave but it seems these demons are able to sense whatever the Alliance did to her, one came after her the moment we got here.