Three months after Emergence Day, Parry was a corporal serving in the Coalition of Ordered Governments Engineering Corps. He was placed in charge of running cleanup crews in cities that had been hit by Locust attacks, and directed civilian volunteers in the cleanup efforts. He became friends with one of those civilians, a man named Dizzy Wallin who had lost his family on E-Day. The cleanup crews were assigned to Halvo Bay a week after it was attacked by the Locust. They were ordered to recover the bodies left in the city to prevent disease from spreading, and Parry reminded the workers to wear gloves and a mask, and to take fifteen minute breaks every two hours. After working for several hours, Parry joined Dizzy during one of his breaks, and asked him why he was a volunteer, since they di