I really enjoyed the second story in the third 9DA box, Lost Warriors. It has so much going for it in the characterization department with the difference between the dramatic myth and the historical reality of Lady Macbeth and husband (Neve McIntosh is simply fabulous here, Anthony Howell is great, David Rintoul is great, all given so much juicy stuff to do, every character goes through changes across the story), and Chris Eccleston is meta-textually the right actor for the story with his general Shakespeare credentials and very famous theatre run as Mr Macbeth, plus his Doctor strikes up exactly the right kind of friendship founded on respect with Ru (the nickname he develops for Mrs M). She is a great one-off companion, and the turn of the story around her inability to destroy the changelings for compelling character reasons is just very satisfying. The nature of the creature was a bit vague to me, the resolution was a little abstract in a way I wasn’t sure about, but I still appreciated the outcome, 9 fans all love a Doctor Dances ending. The 9/Ru chemistry is so strong and the characters so well-drawn by Lizzie Hopley that I really liked it even with some fuzzy plot bits. Strong 3.75/5