human
Please generate a brief description of a secluded setting inside a building tower with stairway, floors, and granite.
assistant
Faint sounds from somewhere outdoors undo the silence and tease through the air, though they cannot be fully discerned from within these thickly reinforced walls. Polished granite floors subtly shaded from grey to dark ivory are swept clean, surrounding the stairway that lofts towards the next level of the tower.