Mimic's life as a pet

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"Mimic, change into a cat for me and come sit on my lap."

I gazed up at the master and sighed softly while doing as he demanded.
Guess I have to find another time to continue reading my book.
Heh, I may call it reading but I'm just watching the pictures because I don't know how to read.
Never had the need to but watching pictures was entertaining.

In my now feline form I gracefully jumped on his lap and settle down.
Feeling bored I was just staring out the window, watching the leaves dance in the wind outside while master contiued doing whatever it was he was doing before.
The Autumn colors were beautiful to watch.
Normally I would have been busy gathering supplies for the winter when hunting would be harder.
But now there was no need to, ever since I got caught years ago my needs were pretty much provided for.
It was convenient in a way but it came at the price of my freedom.
That was a price I didn't want to pay but escaping had proven to be impossible, so I had stopped trying.

While master was softly stroking my fur I thought back about the day he caught me.
It was on a similar day to this one, I was out in his vast yard hunting down his chickens and other animals that lived on his lands.
I didn't know but he had been observing me for some time and had found my weakness.

First he thought a wolf or fox was stealing his animals and he had put up electric fencing and cameras to scare off or catch the culprit in the act.
I had shifted into a fox form and had never seen electric fencing before, I was only a few years old at the time.
The voltage on the fence was quite high and when I touched it to go underneath it had hit me hard.

Electricity can knock me out of my shifted form and back into my original one.
It also messes up all my nerves so I can't move correctly for a while if that happens.
For 15 minutes I had been squirming there like some formless puddle until I was able to move away.
The next time I tried he was prepared and tricked me in an electrified carrel to trap me.
With a taser they immobilized me and now a electric shock collar keeps me under his control.
The material is integrated in my skin so I can't slip out of it.
The stupid thing can change sizes quite dramatically too, making it impossible to break.
I tried changing in a sperm whale I once saw on his TV box thingy, but was only able to destroy the room I was in as the collar grew in size to still accommodate my body.
The master had laughed hard at my failed attempt, before he electrocuted me for 30 minutes straight to punish me for breaking down the walls and windows of said room with my whale form.
Even turning as small as a fly didn't work, it did gave me the opportunity to fly out the window and to my freedom only to shock me until he found me because I got near the fence perimeter.
The bastard only told me after that I wasn't allowed to leave the yard without him.
I wasn't sure how long I was electrocuted for before he found out where I was, but it took me two days to move properly and shape-shift again.
Except for laughing at my humiliation he hadn't punished for that attempt because I hadn't broken anything.

The master was actually quite lenient with a lot of things.
At first he wasn't sure what it was I ate or how much I needed and I didn't have a way to tell him because I didn't understand human language so I was hungry quite a lot.

It wasn't until he caught me after servant number three disappeared in three weeks time that he found out I was behind that.
He only electrocuted me so I would spit the poor man out, but that was it.
No stern words or shocks after it.
Only an understanding for him that I needed meat at least once a week and a bit more than just a chicken.
That servant still pales and runs whenever he sees me.

Now I know I'm not allowed to eat anyone without his permission, it sucks and I hate having to wait for food instead of hunting for it myself.

My eyes lit up when his son walked in the room.
The young boy was around 13, a scrawny little blond with bright blue eyes and a permanent mischievous smile on his face.
I didn't mind the young master, he was fun to be around and he wasn't scared of me.
And why would he be?
He hasn't heard the scary stories of my kind and he grew up around me, knowing only my tame side.
His father always made sure that if he allowed me to feast on a human the boy wasn't around.