human
Please generate a brief description of a foreboding scene in the wilderness with a ladder and brambles.
assistant
The path ends abruptly, a wall of brambles entwined with the tree trunks closing in on the pine-needled trail. To the north the trees seem to thin, but there must be another route around, as the forest here will not give way. The top supports of a ladder peek from a slight depression in the ground, but the bottom of the ladder is invisible in the darkness below.