Team Bus — Rome to Fiumicino Airport12:41 AM
The bus moves through Rome's late streets while most of the squad are already asleep in their seats or staring at phones with the particular absence of engagement that comes after everything has been spent, and the city passes outside the windows with the specific quiet of a major city after midnight when the restaurants are closed but the streets aren't quite dark.
Demien rests his bag on the seat beside him and his head goes against the window while his phone screen lights up from his lap.
Twitter is moving faster than he can scroll and his name sits in the trending list with a number beside it that makes no immediate sense as a quantity of people, and clips of all three goals are already past seven figures in combined views while headlines run across the top of the page in Italian and English and Portuguese.
