Wu Xi and the sable and company, G, 125 words, modern AU. The yell that alerted Wu Xi to a problem outside was incandescent with rage. For DZZS Lunar New Year prompt fest Day 3: Home. Read on AO3.

_ The yell that alerted Wu Xi to a problem outside was incandescent with rage. His assistant, Nuahar, poked his head into the home office questioningly. He closed the medical journal he was reading and parted the curtains.

In the neighbor’s garden, a man in a work apron brandished a broom at one of the many bird feeders. Out of the feeder slunk Wu Xi’s pet sable, mouth stuffed with a struggling sparrow. The owner of the estate, rumored to be a reclusive man rarely seen outside his home, was stretched out on a lawn chair nearby. He looked to be asleep under his magazine.