It's only fair to utilize another time-jump, because the meeting between Erieth, Araya & Grim was predictably a bit awkward, but ultimately, not really interesting enough to go into great detail about.
Che expressed abandonment issues, Nivek ranted about wanting to know what the hell was going on, & Banger offered alot of apologies to them both while simultaneously trying to come off like he knew what he was doing all along.
It took some effort, but eventually, Matt talked the other two into joining him on a trade run on the LochNet to Freeport 11 with the promise that all will be explained.