[ the letter's still a little bent and floppy, but serpico only frowns at it briefly before carefully tucking it into his pig's satchel. this isn't ideal, but if he can get away with only light damage to the letters, perhaps his pay won't get docked too much.

somehow ... he gets the sense that actually arguing with this stranger to try and get the letters back un-bent isn't going to be worth the trouble. ]

'Pet?' I was under the impression that these 'carriers' were more akin to a knight's horse, a useful creature rather than one to be doted on.

[ serpico waits for his carrier to knock into the letter-airplane, only picking it out of the air when it's on its way towards the ground. it's still quite a good catch, but not that impressive. after all, he's just a humble mail carrier trying to do his job, right now. ]