[Look at the little boat go, wow... Look also at little Viktor and Rio, who Palamedes finds much more interesting than the toy, but he's studiously not being disconcerting by looking too much. This tiny, shy Viktor is just adorable? He gives him a short grin when Viktor catches his eye - probably accidentally, given how he keeps glancing over and Palamedes keeps pretending not to notice - and turns his attention back to the boat.]

It's fast! [And jesus christ, so is Rio, splashing away so suddenly that Palamedes also laughs in surprise, ah-]

Well, she listened for a handful of seconds, there. [rio.....] I'm starting to think if you managed to see the engines in the bigger ships, you'd have a whole one put together down here in record time.

[Wind up toys are very comparable to engines, ahem, he already said he doesn't know anything about machines.]