Not far from home: my friend and I are walking home and she always suggested that we walk a different way home. "We don't want to give stalkers a pattern to follow." was usually her reasoning.
One day, we come across a stream under a bridge and she decides that's how we can get into the next area.
I'm hesitant but just before she gets too close, there's a scream and a bell falls on the ground just outside the darkness.
She picks the bell up and a small person comes out of the shadow, so I approach as well.
"Give it back!"
"No please?"
"I wouldn't have an attitude with someone that wears leaves instead of clothes."
I picked up a rock and put that arm around her. We slowly backed up but my friend didn't want to.
The small person seemed to reconsider and went back under their bridge.
I took the bell off my friend and threw it into the darkness.