Acknowledgements

I am forever and ever indebted to all the help(space, kindness) provided by my dear Editors/ Facilitators Poorva Ma’am and Sreeja Ma’am. Mom and Dad for giving me Unconditionally loving support and experience through the journey (And when I sat at the table asking them to help me edit, though I hadn’t yet finished my school-assigned work.).

I am incredibly grateful for all the support I received from my Mom, Dad and great-grandmother how they gave me ideas and help with sentence structure and literary devices I’m also happy that I can return the world something, after all, it gave me the power of English and Writing.

I hope that my (facilitators) are happy seeing how I used all the classes we’ve had on English and story writing I thank Poorva Ma’am, Shruthy Ma’am, Sreeja Ma’am, and Disha Ma’am. As well as, Nagendra sir and Umesh sir for unlimited free time in the school lab which supported me a lot in this process. I thank my (dad) Facilitator Happy Sir for all his advice on using different perspectives and emotions for each of my characters.

I owe my peers gratitude as they supported me on this journey with questions and Ideas that helped my book get better. I owe gratitude to Ashraf and Manha for asking me questions about loopholes that were in my story. I thank Neha V. for being one of my peers who didn’t judge my story.

I love how I was influenced and got influenced by fellow writers of my age who had started this journey along with me and helped me overcome writer’s block every time I felt I was failing. I hope I can make a difference in your confidence towards publishing your first book. Thank you Lakshita (who helped me with perspectives of different kinds of stereotypical people), Adwaith (my best friend), Aashna (my fellow literature buddy), Pritesh (who helped me visualize twists for my book with descriptions from my favourite anime), Archita (who told me dramatical and lyrical ways my book had flaws), Mrityunjay (my friend who started writing along with me) I hope you guys publish your books as well.

So much love to four 10th graders in my school for being my inspirations and my big sisters/brothers when I boasted about my book to my friends. So much love to Mihika, Aaryan Samriddhi and Simran. Thank you for reading the first draft of my book to assure me that children will like it.

Thank You, so much Writers/Creators who I looked up to when I was young helped me get such imaginative powers. thank you for being my Idols Enid Blyton, Roald Dahl, Ruskin Bond, Sarah J. Maas, Cassandra Clare, Rick Riordan, J.R.R. Tolkien, Sudha Murthy and my beloved creators Michael Jackson who asked me if I was okay (Annie, Are you okay? Are you okay? Are you okay, Annie?) and stan lee and the MCU for being such amazing creators.

Thank you all!!! For how much you’ve given this world, as this is what I’m giving back.