human
Compose a short description of a depressing scene outside town with a ruined building and stones.
assistant
The wide road leading from the docks to the lift makes a sharp bend as it passes a ruined pile of stones that was once a building. Apparently ravaged by fire or some other disaster, the occupants have deserted the shell. The remaining stones are cracked and blackened, the good ones having been removed by the local denizens to build their own houses.