Answer is in the explantion
Explanation:
Mrs. Mary was out in town getting some rare and new spices to make a delicious dinner for when her husband came home from work. Street vendors had all of their small stands all side by side selling all kinds of things. Mary found a few selling spices. When she found a fine assortment of new spices she was happily on her way home when she remembered her grandchildren were coming over for a visit too. That's when Mary started going to other stands in search of new items for her grandchildren. She got a pair of new ballet slippers for her eldest grandchild, Lily, which was ten. A new book for the middle grandchild, Ollie, he was eight. Laslty, she found a beautiful new doll for the youngest grandchild, Daisy, she was six. While she was there she thought she might buy something new for her husband so she got him a new pocket watch like the one he wanted since his last birthday.
Mary excitedly was one her way home but the bussiness of the street vendors and all the poeple walking from stand to stand and children running everywhere with the new toys many poeple had brought from all around made her go to a new exit. She ended up on the wrong path to her home. She had she always traveled the same path to get home but there was always a dark and creepy looking path that lead through the woods. Mary always thought it lead back home but never tried to go through, until now.
The woods were of course dark and very little light from the sun could go through the many many trees. Mary was walking all alone and a little scared when she heard a buslting noise behind her, and then all around. Soon they popped out from behind the trees and came towards Mary. She got scared, closed her eyes and froze in fear. They started to talk! Mary opened her eyes to see it was her grandchildren! They were getting her gifts too from the vendors and forgot which path they always took and took the wrong one. Thing is they had actually been in the woods for 3 days! They all hugged and cried tears of joy and were off on the path to home through the woods.
They were all walking and talking together when they saw Mary's house only a few minutes away! Eveyone happily started walking quicker home when they saw someone in the house! It wasn't Mrs. Mary's husband either! It was a dark figure! That's when Lily told her grandma that someone was actually chasing them and thy went to the wrong path on purpose to mislead the person. She just didn't want to say the truth for fear of the grandmother being a shapeshifter too. The kids explained to Mary that they were at the street vendors place looking at things when they saw a person that neared closer and closer so they quickly left but the person just followed them and kept saying "Hey wait, I know who Mrs. Mary is, I know who she is." But they stopped for nothing and went into the woods. They carefully waited and watched until the person walked out and turned into Mary's Husband! Everyone was confused the kids said that the man chasing them looked like one of the vendors and not at all like Mary's husband. All of sudden he looked towards where they were hiding and saw that he happily smiled and walked closer.
He said he was sorry for scaring everyone and that he was trying to tell his grandchildren what he really was without raising suspision, but that didn't work out well. They went inside and Mrs. Mary and her husband had a lot to explain to the very confused yet bewildered children. First they exchanged gifts to each other with a lot caution to not scare the children. Both grandparents explained they each come from a family of shapeshifters. They wanted until all the children were older to show them what they could do and also explained that that's what her husband's job is. He shapeshifts to save people all over town.
He always agreed to whatever Mary said and said it was true. That's when Mary's real husband walked through the front door, and told them to watch out because a dangerous mind scanning shapeshifter was coming. It was too late, Mary and the grand children turned around slowly to see it's true form, it was tall and misfigured, reading everyones mind and now taking their forms as well...
