“Daybreak,” Achamian said, reaching out to scratch his mule’s snout. “His name is Daybreak.” For a Mandate Schoolman, no name was more lucky.
An interesting juxtaposition with the cold grey daybreak of his Nroni childhood fishing, described as promising "a punishing sun" paragraphs ago. In Seswatha's service the waking world is punishing, yet real infliction comes in the afterlife / Outside / dreams
