Alex shook his head then went in for the big guns, he took out a shiny thing, a piece of one of his ships, from a small box and whirled it around Marcus, who gasped and stared. No matter when he saw it, it always caught his attention.
He stared and babbled at it, and the shiny thing, hovering on ag motors, bobbed as if it understood, and spun in, touched Marcus's nose(eliciting a squeel of half delight), and whirred away again.