Character Profile
Tomas
Age 24. Runs a digital media agency in London. Tomas came home for the 250th and turned his skills to the new fight: he traced the saboteurs who tried to wreck the celebration back to the rebranded developer, and caught the rival historian who broke into the lighthouse. Ten years after building the campaign website at fourteen, he's still the one who finds the trail — and follows it.
Merhaven village The autumn bonfire The frozen estuary
Favourite Things
His phone
Still his weapon of choice. He caught the saboteurs and the rival with CCTV, number-plate traces, and the digital trail they left.
The campaign
He built the website at fourteen — forty thousand signatures. He still keeps the domain renewed, ten years on.
Coming home
Every summer, for the lighthouse. London is where he works; Merhaven is where he comes back to.
The night watch
He joined the fishermen's rota during the 250th — the boy who once couldn't sit still, keeping watch through the dark.
Skills
Digital investigation
He traced the saboteurs' van to the rebranded Coastline Properties, and the rival's break-in to the lighthouse — both with the same methods he'd used at fourteen.
Finding the trail
He ran the number plate, pulled the CCTV, and exposed the developer's return. Same playbook, same company, same mistake.
Loyalty
He keeps his promises. He built the campaign at fourteen and he's still building it — every summer, every story, every trail.
Telling the world
He put the 250th story online — the capsule, the names, the locket — and let the world watch the village find its truth.
"Same playbook, same company, same mistake — because they left a trail."
— Tomas