“rats?” Alex leaned forward in disbelief. “Of course! Why not?” the chancellor held a look of honest confusion. “Now mind you, it wasn’t a very strong demon, but demons can make exceedingly gifted pest exterminators. They are perhaps the second most naturally gifted killing agents in all the planes.” Alex swallowed. “What’s the most gifted? Dragons? War-spirits?” “The common housecat.” “What? That can’t be right.” “Several extinct species of bird, small mammal, and reptile would beg to differ were they not, of course, extinct,” he said.”