something taken and falling into hole

I walked home from the shop having bought some nuts. I placed them in a bowl and set the bowl aside while I briefly climbed the stairs to my apartment, which was very much like a treehouse. Upon returning, the nuts had been eaten and I knew who had eaten them. I thought about what to do and decided to get some money from my wallet and give it to the girl who had eaten my nuts, so she could walk to the shop and buy some more for me. Although I was a little angry, and now that the nuts were gone, I thought this may resolve the matter without unnecessary drama, and may teach the girl the value of not taking what was not given to her. Coins in hand, I went to speak with the girl, but a giant pile of bark mulch with a cavernous hole in the centre of the pile stood between me and the girl. I somehow gravitated to the pile and fell down the hole, perhaps twenty feet into the dug-out earth. I was terrified as I knew at any moment the mulch could fall into the hole and bury me alive. I called to the girl and begged her to get help and fast. Moments later some circus performers appeared at the mouth of the hole and one, a man I know, tied a rope around his torso and somersaulted into the hole, tethered me to him, and the other performers pulled us out. I was grateful to be saved, thanks to the performers and the girl.