The Repairman stretched himself onto the chair appreciatively. He seemed to almost take on a humanoid form as he sat.
“Thank you. I just need to ask you a few questions to try and figure out what’s going on, won’t take long.”
He looked at the bottle again.
“First off, is your hammerspace currently working as normal?”
Shinko blinked a bit as she began to stir up the dough for the raisin bran cookies.
“…my hammerspace? Umm…”
She slowly reached behind herself to bring out a Toon hammer. She just as quickly put it back.
“…it seems fine. But…what’s wrong? I mean, I know you just sorta appeared in the kitchen via a bottle of goop, but…”
“But that’s just it,” the Repairman interjected. “Why was I removed again, and why to here this time?”
He looked at the bottle again. A thought occurred to him.
"Was this bottle in your house before I got here?”
“Umm…I’m not really sure. There’s a bunch of random ingredients in the cupboards that have probably been stuck in the back for a while now. I’m not sure about all the stuff we might have,” Shinko told him, looking a bit worried.
This was the Fourth Wall Repairman after all. If he was noticing something was wrong, did that mean that something was going wrong with the Fourth Wall? Was it broken more than usual?
Or even worse, was it slowly going beyond repair? What would happen if it couldn’t be fixed?
“Hmm…It has nothing to do with the wall,” the Repairman mused, “otherwise I would instinctually know about this…"
He squinted into the bottle. There was nothing to see. Slowly, the Repairman inverted the container.
"Shinko, would you mind tying a ribbon around that hammer and then putting it away again?”
Siblings-a-Fixin' 