Gerrom was the place where the fishermen from the small fishing village involved in the Itko Kan Massacre sold their catch, so Ganoes Paran was sent there by Adjunct Lorn to follow-up clues. When he arrived, he found the town abandoned. Paran estimated that the flight of the inhabitants had happened no more than a day before his arrival. He found no bodies, other than the occupants of the Constabulary who were all dead within the building. The soldiers in the outer room, which was filled with black pigeons, looked as if they had suffocated. Their captain was dead at his desk in his office.