Her name was Dumai, from an ancient word for a dream that ends too soon.
why is this first sentence not set apart more?! it switches right away to talking about Dumai's mother and grandfather, but i had to reread the whole prologue like three times to start making sense of all the perspective shifts... i think it must be because the prologue is badly laid out (giving it the benefit of the doubt that it's not just badly edited, which is also a possibility)
