It was a sunny Saturday afternoon and Cat was lying in her bed. Cat was a shapeshifter, and if she saw someone or something, she could shapeshift into it. She was originally a cat. Cat was very hungry and wanted her favorite food peaches along with her favorite drink peach juice. The only place she knew where to get peaches was the farm a mile down the road. As she was thinking, she saw a young lady walking down the road and had a great idea.
Cat changed into the young girl and walked to the farm. When she got to the farm she walked the peach fields like an apple orchard. She was really hungry. She spotted the farmer’s son and they became best friends. In a matter of months the farmer’s son was already letting her take peaches at her will. She then wed the farmer’s son and had all the peaches to herself.
The farmer was angry that he was losing all of his peaches. He wanted to see who was taking his peaches. Since there was a river nearby, he picked out the peaches that were left in his field and put them in a pile in the field. The farmer set up a trap underneath the peaches to catch the thief.
Late that night, the farmer sat watching behind the tree and waited for the thief to take the peaches. Cat came by but in her original form, a cat. She shapeshifted into the girl she had seen on her walk to the farm and started piling the peaches in her skirt. The farmer couldn’t believe his eyes. He was furious that his son’s wife was the one stealing the peaches.
The next day, the farmer confronted Cat.
“Cat, I saw you last night taking my peaches,” he said.
“I don’t believe you,” Cat responded. “Prove it to the whole town and I will take my punishment, but until then, I will deny that I did anything.”
The farmer set out to find a way to prove to the town that Cat was the one stealing their precious peaches. He thought that he could put peaches at the other side of the river, put peach juice in the river, and had the entire town swim across the river. He said, “The person or people who get carried away by the current will only be carried away by guilt and would never be seen again.”
He set up his plan and the people swam across the river. Everyone except Cat made it across. She was carried away by the current, never to be seen again. She will return, just not in that town.