A Mugger With A Knife (night of 21/07/2023)

I am in Brighton. It is night. Dark back streets and orange streetlights. It feels like we are walking the backs of houses and shops and restaurants. A deserted area. I am with with someone - possibly Emily or Louise. It strikes me suddenly how dark the shadows are between the pools of streetlight. Perhaps this is dangerous.
A man appears out of the darkness, intent on violence - perhaps this is a mugging. The man is tall and resembles Nick the folk singer, who I used to work with - but with a moustache. He is wearing some kind of beanie hat.
He pulls out a small knife and approaches us. There is some kind of scuffle. I am somehow on the floor, but he drops the knife, and I pick it up.
Another man comes out of the darkness to help us, and pushes the mugger back. I stand up holding the knife. The knife is small, and the blade looks blunt and inneffectual.
The mugger looks at the knife, and pulls out a hige machete concealed inside his jacket.