[ Being back in present-day Earth without the world trying to end on a daily basis is... strange, to say the least. The first few weeks had been nice, the team taking time to heal and recover from their non-stop ordeal, but then one by one they'd all gone their separate ways. Even though she'd known it was coming, Enoch's prediction a constant echo in the back of her mind, it still hurts like hell to watch her family split apart with promises to keep in touch.

In the end, she decides to follow Coulson's lead and take some time to reassess. Mack's laid out a dozen job options for her, and she knows she'd have a dozen more outside the agency if she wanted to make that move. But for now, she just needs time. So she's still Daisy Johnson, agent of SHIELD, but for now, she's more of a consultant than an active agent.

It's in that consultant role that she finally has time to dive into some of the things sitting on SHIELD's backburner. Strange reports that turn out to be nothing and some... that might be something more. With the technological power of an entire spy agency at her fingertips, it's easy for her to slip through the tangled web of the internet and various government servers and databases to fit the pieces together. They're crazy pieces at times, but she can't help but wonder.

So that's how Daisy's ended up in Hong Kong of all places, wandering cramped alleys and cursing at Google Maps for failing her. She blends in better than the typical tourist, at least, moving with purpose through the crowds. After twenty minutes, she gives up and just asks someone for directions, using her extremely limited Cantonese to thank the shop owner before finally finding the bar in question. An old expat watering hole that had been around for nearly a century.

Hardly anyone turns to look at her as she enters, heading straight to the bar for a much-needed beer. Drink in hand, she turns to lean back against the counter, surveying the crowd with feigned disinterest. ]