human
Produce a detailed written description of a foreboding scene outside of a forest with trees, pines, needles, and a path.
assistant
Thin trees and scruffy vegetation rise skyward like desperate worshipers of a unforgiving god, not thick enough to keep the path from being completely open to the sky. Winds snap through the area, hardly hindered by the clumps of dry pines -- in fact, the pines seem to be losing this battle, as every gust sends a shower of brittle needles sailing through the air.