Kes just studied him silently for a long moment, as if weighing him, assessing... and then finally turned his eyes away.

"Come on. I'll show you where your rooms are," He said, with an almost weary sadness to his voice. It was a fight he'd long since been forced to give up, but that still managed to kill him slowly whenever he thought about it. "It's Poe's old rooms, obviously - I haven't really changed them, since he left." Just in case he ever decided to come home, is what he didn't say.