Spoiler Warning: Beka Cooper: Mastiff

We take a time out from our regularly-schedule TAotWS for a moment of silence for the late Matthias Tunstall.

Mattes, you were a wonderful partner to both Beka and Goodwin, and Lady Sabine loved you with all her heart.  You live in our memories forever.

We shall end with the single question, the three simple words that shall occupy my thoughts for a good while yet, and may even haunt me to the end of my time:

DAMMIT, TUNSTALL, WHY?!?