"Jyn, I would like very much for you to sit down. I...have bad news."

Jyn paused in her effort of mixing powdered coffee with water and turned to Orson Krennic with confusion and worry in her eyes. Orson had banished the troopers that usually accompanied him and had made himself at home on the footrest in front of Papa's chair.

There were dark circles under his eyes the likes of which she had never seen, and Jyn chose to take his dark words seriously. Orson was not the sort of man tojoke.

She walked over and sat on the ground with her legs crossed, a frown decorating her lips.

For a moment there was a heavy silence while Orson shifted where he sat and Jyn scratched behind her ear and wished she didn't sleep in such revealing nightgowns.

"Miss Erso," he began awkwardly, but Jyn cut him off.

"Call me Jyn, Orson," she said, rolling her eyes. "We've only known each other my whole life."

Orson stiffened at her words but seemed to lack the strength to argue with her like he usually so adored.

"Very well, Jyn. I will not waste time on foolish speeches," he said, frowning. "There was an attack on the ship your parents were on."

Jyn felt like she had when mum and dad had taken her to one of the planets decorated with that fluffy white stuff, snow. She had become overexcited and had been ill and shivering for days.

"It was the rebels," Orson said, clenching his hands together. "By the time we got the distress signal, it was too late."

Not the sort to show emotion, Orson's trembling voice threw Jyn off almost as much as his words.

"Their bodies were so burnt and torn apart by the savages, we couldn't even gather enough to return with."

His harsh way of delivering the tragic news made Jyn feel faint.

Mum? She thought, though her own inner voice was soft and uncertain, like a child's. Papa?

She did not even know she had sagged over until her face pressed against Orson's warm chest. His loud exclamations and snarled orders did nothing to alleviate the lightness in her head or the heaviness in her chest.

"Jyn, are you all right!"

She vomited.