Shieldmaiden
Character: Tamsin
Rating: T
Notes: Post 3x06. This wasn't supposed to be the all-Tamsin drabble set, but if she keeps being so awesome, what else am I supposed to do?
The three of them look at her with pity, as if they believe she doesn't know what it is to feel friendship such as they have. To feel love.
Insulting. Condescending. Most of all, wrong.
Tamsin knew sisterhood stronger than blood, bound by oaths of steel and magic. She has had lovers, loved, been loved. She has felt these things more deeply than those mistakenly sympathetic eyes could imagine.
She's lost them, too, to circumstances beyond her control and as a result of her own nature.
These soft creatures of light can take their misplaced compassion and choke on it.