human
Make a concise location description of a depressing scene outside a town keep with a parapet, a tower, and a walkway.
assistant
Ages ago, the parapet encircled the northeast tower and continued south to protect the vulnerable flanks. But now the walkway greets empty space where the tower once stood, its pitiful remnants strewn across the landscape a thousand times over by unfathomable powers. Even time takes its toll in the aftermath, slowly eating away the weakened embattlements year after year.