#TheDuel

I love the name of honor, more than I fear death
- Julius Caesar

Dust swirls in the circle girded by retainers. The combatants choose their weapons. One draws an axe, heavy but deadly, the other a falchion, light but precise.

The axe wielder is a wedge of thick muscle, without the excess heft of sloth. He shifts his feet with a slow grace and holds an hard...