So: Mulcahy basically already lives in deep mourning about his old regrets and lost love, homesickness and being forever astray from Earth, and being a broken and changed enough man with so many people lost far from home that he's never going to have the same joys again, day-to-day, all the time. Would it be cool or fine if he was largely unaffected (lapis lazuli voice "i've felt worse") and spent time at Merrymeet trying to help others, since the demons are protected?