One Halloween night, a faerie child befriends a human child and together they explore each other's worlds. They spend the night playing in the faerie's world of "brownies and boggles and sprites" and the faerie child asks the human child to stay on to become one of his own. Instead, she takes him to her world of "barn and yard and pen" and begs him to become human. While neither one is willing to give up his or her current life, the two exchange gifts to remind them of their friendship and stolen visits.