human
Produce a detailed written description of a depressing scene outside a grove in the wilderness with a dead pine tree.
assistant
A dead pine's skeletal branches knock together in the wind, and the dry rapping noises travel down the limbs into the trunk, sounding like a heart beating somewhere deep within. The coarse, black bark clings to the weather-silvered tree only in ragged patches that crumble off easily, and in the crook of a low branch, the wood bears the lacy scars of a termite infestation.