“Hmm…It has nothing to do with the wall,” the Repairman mused, “otherwise I would instinctively 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?”
“Oh…sure thing,” the small Toon nodded as she decided to leave the raisin bran dough alone for now.
“I done!” came Sinko’s voice as the smaller Toon came running into the kitchen.
“Oh! Um…Sinko, why don’t you wash your hands and then take the bowl into the other room so you can stir the dough?” asked Shinko.
“Tay!” was Sinko’s reply as she did just that, watching her nubby hands before whisking the bowl of dough away from the counter to stir it on the couch while she watched cartoons.
Shinko let out a small sigh of relief. Whatever was going on, she wanted to make sure that Sinko didn’t accidentally mess anything up. She took out her hammer, as well as a very long piece of ribbon, from her hammerspace. She tied one end of the ribbon around the handle of the hammer before replacing it back behind her.
“Umm….is this ribbon long enough?” she asked the Repairman, looking down at the white ribbon she was holding in her hands.
“That works,” he replied. “Now, let’s see…”
With the bottle still upside down, the Repairman gave a small shake.
Rattle. Rattle.
“Just as I thought,” he mused. He hit the bottom of the bottle a few times until…
Clunk.
Siblings-a-Fixin' 