Kore shook her head quickly.  "No, I didn't think we would share, I just didn't want to put you out...  The bed actually looks really comfortable, I was just trying to be polite."  She admitted, looking a bit sheepish.  The way Zeus had talked about runners she almost expected a cold and hardened criminal, someone who had no sympathies for her situations and no real ties outside of those he worked with.  This man was...kind.  Likely much kinder than she currently deserved, since she was putting him out a bit.<br/><br/>"Oh, I wasn't worried you couldn't.  Just sort...curious.  I studied the virus a bit in my time in the labs, I think my mother even had some thoughts on looking for some kind of cure, but most of the research did not turn out to be fully viable.  You have to be careful when you're working with living beings..."  Kore explained.  As she spoke the last words, the images she had found of her mother's research flashed in her mind.  Her mother had not taken care with the lives of the living, she had acted out of some strange desperation.  Kore still did not have the full story, but she knew it had something to do with her when she was a child and an illness she had.  She had thought maybe she had the virus as well, but her mother could not have hidden the effects and she had no impulse to feed.  "Maybe if I get out of this, someday, it's something I could go back into researching.  I'd still like to help people again at some point."<br/><br/>"Kore is fine.  That's what my friends always call me.  I go by my middle name.  Persephone always seemed long."  She said, smiling up at him.  Kore let out a yawn and walked over to the bed, settling down on the edge of it.  "I should thank you, again, for helping me.  If there is any way I can repay you after all this is done, I will. "  She patted the bed and smirked a bit playfully.  "Maybe I can get you a pullout couch, the nice kind.  That way the next time you come to the rescue of a damsel in distress, you don't have to give up your bed."<br/><br/>It was an earnest gesture on her part.  She felt bad for putting him out in such a way.  "Sorry if I'm prying, but is that why you got into running?  Were you a runner before you..." She was not sure how to word the question, she did not want to sound rude.  "...Changed?"