Rey concentrated on the list of names she held in her hands. None of them were familiar. She thought that at least one name would jump out at her, and she would have some sort of lead. Nothing sounded familiar, nothing looked familiar. Unkar Plutt told her that this would happen if she started questioning who her parents were. She thought that Plutt knew, that he had always known, but he kept it from her. She sat the list down and picked up her bowl of food.
On Jakku, her diet consisted of mostly mush. It was something, that, like the sand, she just became accustomed to. She ate ravenously, thinking about the names on the list. The list was given to her by a clerk at the Niima Outpost registration center. It was a list of every scavenger who had apparently died near or in Niima Outpost and was too poor to have a funeral. They were buried in pauper's graves outside the city.
Ben paced his chambers aboard Snoke's ship. Rey had been missing for two weeks now, and no one knew where she was. Leia sent her to find Luke, but Ben knew that she had her own agenda. She couldn't hind that from him. Before going to Luke, she stopped somewhere, and that's where Ben lost her. He assumed that her destination was Jakku. Why would she ever go back there? Why was finding her parents so important to her? He reached out to her with the force, searching Jakku for her with his mind. He wasn't at all surprised when he found her, hunkered down in a hollowed-out starship.
"Why is this so important to you?" Ben asked through the force. Rey picked her head up and looked around.
"Not now!" She grumbled.
"You'll never find them. They don't deserve to be found!" Ben started. He was baiting her. To spite him, she set aside the bowl of mush that she knew he could see her eating, and picked up the list again.
"I'll find them." She spoke with determination, the kind of determination that made her easy to manipulate. Kylo Ren saw that.
"It's them." He teased her, using the force to draw her attention to a random name on the list. Javi, and Katie Havana. Nothing special about either of them. They were travelers who came to Niima Outpost twenty years ago. Nothing except an identification tag was ever found of them. They were presumed dead. No loss to the Outpost.
Rey wasn't sure why, but the names did stick out. Javi and Katie. They seemed like normal names. Maybe the names of people who were in hiding. Rey cleared her mind and forced Kylo Ren out of her head. She focused on the two names, until the entire list became a blur. Two figures appeared to her. The first was a short woman with long dark hair, much like her own. The other was a tall man, in an odd jacket. Were these her parents? Was Kylo somehow right?
"Where are their remains?" Rey asked.
"The only thing we found was an identification tag and a necklace, near where they were last seen." The receptionist read information from a data pad. "The stuff was filed in LockBox 1568 if you'd like to examine it." The receptionists offered. Rey nodded. She felt like she was being forced to nod along, and she half wondered if Kylo was manipulating her. The receptionist pulled out a small box, no bigger than Rey's hand.
Rey opened the box carefully and blew a layer of dust off it. She picked up the identification card and flipped it over in her hand. It looked like it had been lying in the dust for centuries. The necklace on the other hand looked brand new. It still sparkled in the Jakku sunlight. Rey picked it up and gently turned it over in her hand. As if an electric current were running through her, the necklace began to vibrate in her hand. The receptionist was distracted with the data pad, so Rey slipped the necklace into her pocket and then handed the box back across the counter.
"Thank you." Rey said. "I have more questions than answers now, though."
"That's usually what happens." The receptionist nodded and took the box back. "Have a good day." Disengaging completely, the receptionist walked away. Rey took that as a cue to walk away as well. A gust of wind came from no where and wave of sand hit Rey in the face. At that very moment, she was sick of Jakku, once again. She fished a comm link out of her pocket.
"Chewie, I'm ready to leave." She said, solemnly. Almost immediately, the Millennium Falcon appeared on the horizon. Rey felt confident that she would never come back to Jakku. She was ready to move on and find Luke Skywalker.