Canon gets increasingly more strange as the games progress, honestly, but fortunately most of her role is easy enough to simplify even if what it boils down to is 'canon never explained this and probably never will so here's what we've got to work with.' You know, par for the course with KH.

And alright! Sounds like a plan; patience pays off and she'll have grown more curious over time if he didn't introduce himself after she kept seeing him around, so they'll be ripe for the introductions if they happen to meet up somewhere.