It had to be said that - though the highland weather was often inclement - it was inclement with style.
A storm raged across the sky - the thunder rolled out its sonorous rythmn as the lightning backlit the ragged mountain peaks and forked into the earth. Another mighty rumble followed by bolts of white light that this time found their mark.
The ancient circle of stones had withstood a millennia of the worst that Mother Nature could throw at it and no amount of electricity - no matter how melodramatic - was going to bring it down today.
There was a loud crack as the lightning bolt made contact - the space between the largest stones seemed collapse in on itself then spat something human sized out in to the rain-soaked mountainside.
"Bugger," said the human sized thing.
Two hours later there was a tired knock on the old oak door of the stone keep that stood in the centre of the loch.