Chapter 65Jonah's skin tingled the moment he entered the Brain of Kitezh. Though he and the others stayed just inside the door, back from the thickest mists and lights, he still felt nervous and strange.
He smelled water and tasted metal on his tongue. He heard a continuous buzz like the song of a power line. He glimpsed images and unfamiliar symbols rolling around in the misty swirls. As he watched, an image of him, Stanza, Mavis, Arthur, Hercules, and Father Alexander, standing by the door, rippled past in the mist like a kite.
Just then, Alexander closed the door behind Jonah with an echoing boom. "In the thirteenth century," said Alexander, "a Mongol Khan and his horde marched on the holy city of Maly Kitezh."
Alexander paced in front of Jonah and the others, hands clasped behi
