[ because for daisy, she was never really loyal to shield as an organization. her mental map of shield was a two-sided thing: coulson and his team, first and foremost, with her loyalty to the man the lifeblood behind it; in a distant second, shield's larger organization, with directors and committees and policies far beyond her immediate understanding.

daisy had thrown her loyalties to a man who was just an agent with a small team, and those loyalties hadn't always extended beyond that. it was only once said agent took on the mantle of director that her loyalties blanketed out to all that the director touched — and still, only by virtue of his command.

to throw that same level of loyalty into morningstar would mean assigning that loyalty to someone new, and thus far, gaby and el haven't exactly been the kind of people daisy wants to ride or die for.

but she doesn't explain, because keith dives forwards, as if sensing the complications that lay in a simple question like that. ]

I don't think anybody who just offers to be your family is in it for anything other than the foster kid check. [ #orphanclubproblems ] But friends? I think we can do that.

[ technically, she already thinks of keith as a friend. ]