>"What about a trebuchet?" someone asked.

>Kaname laughed. "Sure, if you can build one by six o'clock tomorrow night," she said.

That sounds like a challenge.

>Down in front, Amy Pond - probably the only person in the B'hava'el system who was more Scottish than MacGregor, being from the genuine and original Inverness - had taken his theme fully on board, sporting not only slightly ragged Clan MacIntosh tartan but vivid blue war paint.

I imagined her as looking rather like Boudicca from Civilization 5.

Polychrome

But I play too much Civ 5