<em>Ari popped up from behind the washer, and moved it back.  She pressed the button and with almost no sparks at all, the machine started right up, "There ya go, Doc.  She's right as rain."</em><br/><br/>"Next time this thing nips at me, like I'll go get my hogleg and ventilate it," she warned.  "Or get Koschei to chuck it out the airlock when we're betwixt and between.  Consarn it, Ari, it vexes me sore."  Sarah Beth frowned once more at the now working washer then pushed her hand through her hair.  "Thank you for patching it up," she said with sincerity.  "I apologize for bellowing for you instead of coming and asking you to look at it.  I was a bit peeved."<br/><br/>"Didn't take you away from nothing important, did I, Ari girl?"