Instinctively, you dodge to one side, before pivoting and thrusting forward with your sword. The tip of the blade finds its target just below Vanya's ribs, and you push the attack home, piercing his armor and driving up into his chest. Vanya staggers backward, and for a moment, the two of you become one being, fused together by a thin band of steel. Then he topples backward, the blade slips from his chest, and he slumps to the ground.
As you stand over Vanya's body, dizzy with both triumph and exhaustion, one of the warriors approaches from the perimeter of the stone circle.
"Tell them," you say to her. "Tell them all. Vanya is dead, and I am, once more, the chieftain of this tribe."
She nods earnestly. "What of Vanya?"