It wasn’t unusual for you to be woken up by Soap’s voice outside your door when he took his weekly phone calls from his mother.

Today was a bit different.

When you woke up from your nap, you heard his voice but couldn’t understand him, so in a sleepy haze, you popped your head out the door to see him on the phone, per usual, but the words that came out still didn’t make sense to you, “Chan eil mi deiseil airson a bhith san achadh a-rithist gus an dèidh na Nollaige.”