human
Produce a detailed written description of a foreboding scene outside the wilderness woods with a blackened wrack and branches.
assistant
A fork in the burned tree's trunk provides precarious footing for those who venture here. Slender, nearly-straight branches reach upward from the blackened wrack of the tree, like a multitude of fingers yearning toward the sky. The higher canopy of the forest all around looms in every direction like walls of a living castle.