Tuesday, June 12, 2023St George's Park — Room 31811:15 PM
Phillips still hadn't arrived and the room was quiet except for the low hum of the facility's ventilation outside the window, and the bed on the other side had a bag on it that hadn't been unpacked yet.
Demien sat on the edge of his own bed with his laptop closed on the desk behind him and his phone charging on the nightstand, and the ceiling was standard hotel ceiling and the room was standard hotel room except for the tactical board on the wall with the FA crest at the top of it.
He'd been putting this off since Rome.
Since the confetti was still falling at the Stadio Olimpico and the panel had appeared with the Coppa Italia rewards and the Van Basten notification and the balance had sat at 1,490 TP and 813 MP and 7 SP for the past month while he was buying houses and driving to Florence and sailing off Antibes and reading contracts and starting England camp.
He spoke quietly into the dark.
"System."
