Book01 Of Alaya The Brave

A Note from the Author

A Note from the Author

My dear readers — a humble request, from my heart to yours.

Please take a moment to read these words. I wrote them especially for you… each one of you.

Why this request? Because this book is meant for children — yes — for those who are five and above. But it is also meant for the child sleeping within you… the one you may have forgotten somewhere between the days and years — whether you are 25, 35, 55, or even 75.

That child still exists. Maybe hiding behind a curtain of responsibilities, maybe curled up beneath the bed of memories, maybe lost in the long corridors of life — but they are still there. Waiting. Quiet. Patient. Hoping you will remember them.

So as you read this book with the little loves of your life, I ask you to gently wake that child inside you — take them by the hand and bring them along. And when you read… don’t just read. Imagine.

When you imagine, see the world in your mind. When you see it inside you, open your eyes and find it again before you. And when you see it, believe. When you believe, you begin to manifest. As you manifest, you bring forgotten magic back into this world — the same magic you once knew was real, the magic you touched, the magic you dreamed of, the magic life slowly asked you to ignore as you moved from one chapter to the next.

Believe in that magic. Believe in its return. Believe with your whole heart and your whole mind — and feel your soul lift, shimmer, and dance with joy again.

Because when you cross that invisible doorway — that tiny portal that only imagination can unlock — you will find a world unlike anything you remember. A world made of peace and harmony. A world built entirely from love. A world where thought becomes creation, where wishes shape reality, where colours exist that your eyes have never seen, colours without names, colours that dance with the sunlight, the moonlight, and the starlight. Colours that bind all of us together in ways we forgot to notice — until we chose to see again.

So let’s take that journey… the journey you dreamed of once, long ago, but dismissed as impossible. Let’s walk it together — you, me, and the little ones you hold close. Let’s awaken possibilities. Let’s breathe life into imagination. Let’s return magic to the world, hand in hand.

Let’s dream.

Let’s imagine.

Let’s create magic.

And above all — let’s build a world worthy of the children we cherish most: a world worth living for, worth loving for, and worth fighting for.

This book was the hardest for me to write. The challenge was finding a way to simplify the first steps into a timeless saga — softening it enough to be read aloud as a bedtime story, while still holding enough wonder to keep the older children enchanted.

I hope, with all my heart, that I have done justice to the calling of my life — Bringing The Harmonya Chronicles to life.

Shaheer J. Syed