[A distraction tonight was a good idea. Even if it doesn't put him in the happiest of moods.
Richie doesn't write a letter. If he had tried he would have written a thirty-page report on all the information he knows about Marina and requested a swift rescue. Which, he thinks, defeats the whole purpose of this little holiday-festival-thing.
So the little piece of paper he sends has two sentences on it and he thinks it's more than enough.