Human: Compose a short description of a foreboding wilderness setting with a trampled clearing. Assistant: 
The faint outlines and twisting pathways of the animal run seem to terminate in a small trampled clearing. The black oaks which dominated the run have given way to tall pines, whose fresh aroma now fills the area. The clearing is bathed in a strange silence and a tense, semi-perceptible energy lingers in the air, as if in wait.