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Show - 128 over the flickering fire the night of the battle -- almost defiantly. Yet he felt there was a deep warmth within her. He felt that she was like unto a deceivingly calm, nlacid lake on the surface, with the fires of a volcano within. She was even more beautiful in the light of dav than when he had first beheld her. She stepned out of the water toward him. "Me te me a konu ka rere 1_ te_ pae, Like the Dawn Maiden rising from the mist," he murmured to himself. She flung a cloak about her as she walked toward him. The dronlets of water lay golden from the sun uoon her brown body. Her raven hair hung straight and long to the middle of her back. Her snuare chin gave her a determined air, but her eyes, though black and wide-set, were warm and bright. Her mouth x^ras well formed and her 11ns were not as thick as most Maori women. Her body was tall and lean and, like Roa's, different from most of her people. Roa stood frozen to the snot where he had first soied the bathing maidens. Annrehensive until a smile crossed her face as she stoooed directly In |