Chapter 62The church tower slid up out of the middle of the lake by moonlight and opened its golden onion dome like a submarine hatch beside the motorboat. Hercules' summons to the lost city of Kitezh had worked as promised.
"I told you!" Victoriously, he pumped his fists overhead. The upper half of his body was soaked from leaning into the lake to call out to Kitezh. "She cannot resist my song!"
"Hurry up!" said Stanza. "Everyone get inside."
Mavis hung back with the boat's ancient pilot, who leaned on the outboard engine and watched with a lack of surprise that baffled her. An underwater cathedral. A living underwater cathedral reaching up for visitors. How could you ever get used to this?
Arthur was first off the boat, hopping onto the stone ledge around the mouth of the cyl
