She didn't mind the change of subject at all. Thoughts of the possibility of her friends having been infected by zombies were not pleasant ones at all.

"For business," Inara explained, remainly slightly cryptic about her actual profession - though not because she was embarrassed by it, but rather he just hadn't asked.

"I could have, and I probably had enough to buy a ship of my own... But what would I need a whole ship for? It's much more practical to rent the shuttle and let someone else worry about the everyday runnings of the larger ship."