He turned away as she spoke--not to shut her out, but because he had to look away to take in all that she was saying without overtly breaking down. Gathering breakfast was a plausible deflection, and he focused on that instead of the tears threatening to well up. It did not help, probably, that he could feel Rey's emotion, which while a mere reflection of his own for his sister created something like a feedback loop.

"The first time I met her," he said, looking down at the cluster of eggs in his hands and smiling without realizing it, "she ordered Han and I into a garbage chute, insulted our ability to rescue her, and called Chewie a walking carpet."