The complexity of time, again. Poe Dameron didn't know her before, didn't know her closeness with Leia. It's too hard to pick this tangle apart, so she focuses on the question, which she might as well answer honestly.

"We've been friends since we were girls," she said. "We met as apprentice legislators to the Senate. It's because of her that I am where—got to where I was, I suppose. I joined the Rebellion because of her."

Almost by accident, really. But, she always felt, a happy one.