Thomas Craig
The youngest son of the remaining heirs of the Craig dynasty, would play for hours in the attic space. This space once used for Familia business now lays a relic of its former glory. Preserved as well as captivated in all that is new in nineteen eighty-nine. His mother Delores continued on running Mikkim Auctions and was considerably consumed with her time. His father was in real estate and chose to put together plans for some architectural changes to the mansion.
Days are often lonely for the young Craig boy, and he finds comfort in the attic. The butler of the mansion would bring by his meals and snacks throughout the day while the young man would craft art, read, or watch some of his movies. Thomas Craig was highly intelligent and that came from the world of film. Something about that old tv sitting on a milk carton smack dab in the middle of the room as though he was alone on an island with just his imagination. All the joy in the world for Thomas was in this attic.
It was in the fall when Mr. & Mrs. Craig were killed in a freak accident. Freak accidents didn't come as surprises to any of the Craig Dynasty as Mr. Craigs great Grand parents had also died of mysterious ways in this very mansion. Massey was loading wood for the fireplace on thanksgiving 1930 when lightening stuck and killed him out front of the Mansion Garden entrance.
Mika was in her workspace when she heard the bolt crash into her beloved. She ran to the windowpane just in time to catch what she called his soul being snatched away to the underworld. Mika's memoir stated just that! Mika would die within a week after her husband as the sunk in portion of the attic gave way and swallowed her whole. All but her head remained out of the splintered wood, and that's how her children found her. The space would stay the same once the body was removed and the floorboards cemented.
Through the years the attic would never be used as some believed it contained Mika's presence which scared most. The thought of a ghostly Asian woman haunting them did not appear to be appealing. Well not until the young Thomas Craig developed a love for film noir. His parents brought up a TV and blankets making this space his if he so chose. Thomas would spend hours there, and no one worried for him.
On this particular day, Thomas was captivated with the effects of World War Two and the performance of a Welsh actor's portrayal of a young elite trapped in the fortress of life as he knew it and what it would become. In between all the bombings and music Thomas heard a screaming cry. He runs to the window and sees that a crane had accidentally dropped cement boulders onto his parents. People were panicking as this holy hell consumed the lives of the two.
Scared and not wanting to be found, Thomas hid amongst the fabrics and clothes of his once famed Great Grand Mother. Brother and Sister would come to seek him out and when they did the so-called pool to be gave way and Thomas fell straight through it.
The Butler Basie watched as young Thomas Craig fell directly onto the chandelier. Piercing his body with the metal rods and scattered glass he and the unit shattered down to the floor. Brother and sister were swallowed up by Mika or should we say the cemented floors. The whole Craig family died in one fell swoop of a day, Thanksgiving 1989.
The Craig Mansion halted its constructional changes and was shut down for years. Nothing was touched and nothing was to be removed or added.
After Covid in the year two thousand twenty-one, Kenneth Keith resumed his birthright and decided to re-open the Mansion turning it into a loft condo estate. This estate would be home to the richer folk on Connors Island who needed a break from every day. Costly, yet angelic in nature. People would be selected out of a pool of names entered the lottery of the in-between. This was an annual contest held for people of Vincettio, who have found themselves stuck between places to call home.
The town of Vincettio caught fire and burned to the ground in the eighties, leaving everything torched but a random television in the middle of the road!
In nineteen eighty nine, an infant angel watched as his mother put rat poisoning into whiskey and fed it to her husband as he bathed in the tub. 'Suo Gan' By. John Williams played on the radio acting as a lullaby for he and his siblings. His mother went to take out the trash and came home with an invitation to a Thanksgiving Dinner amongst friends. She sipped some wine and then retrieved Kenneth's Brother and Sister. To the bathroom she went.
As the lullaby continued, his mother returned and decided to cradle him to sleep to the music. Brother and Sister lay face down in the tub alongside their lifeless father.
The lights flickered in their town home and all that Kenneth could remember was awakening in an abandoned house.
Years later he would find out that he was the illegitimate child of Thomas Craig's father. He would build on the site he was found in and honor his last known relative, his brother Thomas Craig.
Thomas Craig was watching the movie 'Empire of the Sun' when he heard the screams of passer by's whom witnessed his parents' death. His soul was trapped in the Mansion and he came to live in purgatory there. He assumed the character from the Welsh actor of the movie and believed he to be Jim and his butler who stayed in purgatory with him would be known as Basie.
The rooftop terrace is where everyone gathered for the feast in which Basie had prepared. The Abyss with the help of Jimmy welcomed the new residents of the Thomas Craig. All the invited came with exception to Marta who recently slipped into the void and her home was chosen for her. Each invited member sat down next to an open chair. Basie announces that there will be seven new residents joining them for dinner. No one seems to understand what is happening in the moment, but the realization does come to one of the residents as he looks up and sees his son Kenneth coming out onto the Terrace. Basie too notices that he notices, and then realizes Jimmy spots the rain coming from a far.
'Suo Gan' begins to play on the record player and the lights begin to flicker!
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