human
Please generate a detailed description of a depressing scene outside a wilderness hot spring with a pool of orange fluid and dead plants.
assistant
A series of natural dacite steps against the rock wall once conveyed a small waterfall down to this area on the volcano's western slope. Now, an orange fluid drips languidly over the rocks, collecting in a large, viscous pool. The plants around it have turned yellow, their dead stalks floating on the steaming morass.