Ok, just finished reading your prologue. Seems interesting--there's definitely enough to make me want to read on.
Your sense of balance within a paragraph/scene is pretty much spot on, I think. Nothing goes on too long, and you have a knack for the catchy lines, e.g.
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Yet a prince sought refuge in the night.
The dialogue is also pretty good. Most of it feels real, which I think should be the main target when writing dialogue. Particular favourites were,
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“I’ve always believed the world follows a certain sense of…equality. Or is it irony? My education, in some ways, was never very good, Derrick Schwann. Vulgar, in a way.”
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“It’d be quite a profound accomplishment to bury it any further than I found it, sir."
One thing I think you should look out for with the dialogue, though: you are a big fan of the exclamation mark

It makes your characters sound surprised a lot.
So, in general this is a good read, but there are two points that stuck out at me while I was reading it. The first is that the second scene in this prologue did not feel like a prologue, if you get my drift. Especially since it was completely disconnected to the first scene, it felt like it should have been chapter one instead. It feels like the beginning of the story. Obviously, I don't know what the rest of the story is, so I just have a small snippet to base that opinion on. The first scene
does feel like a prologue scene, and the Raat snagged my interest... but I am a little unsure of the significance of it. Maybe that would become obvious later on?
The other point is that you tend to use what I call flowery prose (or purple prose, or whatever). I noticed a definite tendency to use a lot of modifiers where a simpler statement would do just the job, and keep the pace flowing faster. There were a couple of points where I wasn't particularly sure what you were trying to say, or at least not until I'd read it a couple of times, which kind of halts the experience.
A couple of examples:
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That gloom seeped into adjacent passages, deepening past the mere absence of light.
So I understand what you're trying to say here (I think!), but the second part of the sentence feels a little like it's trying too hard. Can gloom deepen past an absence?
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Only a single guard was stationed, half asleep in disdain-inspiring negligence. It would be effortless.
I feel this is a little too heavy-handed. Imo, the simpler option would be preferable here. ‘There was only one guard, and he was already half asleep. It would be effortless.’
But anyway. Overall I thought it's well done, so hopefully some others will have a read as well and post comments. Send me another chapter if you want, I'd be interested to see what comes next
If you don't mind telling me, where does this story go? What's it about, what type of fantasy would you describe it as? If you have one of those back-of-the-book blurbs written for it, I'd like to read it.