He waits for her to sit, to be ready to hear the answers he hasn't known how to tell her before now, before he starts to talk.

"Before we arrived here, I met Palpatine. He's still alive." Somehow. Even Kylo doesn't have the best grasp of exactly how. Palpatine hadn't felt much of a need to elaborate about it, and Kylo had other questions that were more important.

"And I learned something about your parents. When they left you on Jakku, they were trying to hide you. From him."