human
Make a concise location description of a depressing scene outside the wilderness with weeds.
assistant
Here at the edge of the dust-strewn rocky plateau the city was built upon, it is hard to imagine anyone thinking it was a choice spot. A vista of rock and sand spreads out to the northeast, the salt-tinged desert inhospitable to all. Huddling in the shadows, a few clumps of sad-looking weeds growing at the base of the city wall are the only sign of life to be found here.