“I’ll tell you what I believe in,” she said. “I believe in the 'āina—the land and the sea and the air around us. When our ancestors first saw the fury of the surf or the angry fire spitting from volcanoes, they saw that there was a power to these things that they could not explain. They knew they had mana—power. And they do. Can you look at the beauty around us, Aouli, and doubt that there is mana in this crater, and in the land and sea and sky that surround it?” “No,” Rachel allowed. “No land is more beautiful,” Haleola said, “and therefore more powerful. That is what I believe in, Aouli. I
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