2. Then it was the rats. Sewer workers began to find piles of bones in places where the scurrying, pestilent rodents had once congregated. And if few citizens lamented the pigeons, fewer still were prepared to mourn vermin. Some went so far as to praise the supposed Emergent cats urban legend credited with causing this turn of events. Tuna, chicken pieces, and other treats were left out for them -- leading to a golden age for Culverton's bemused felines.