human
Write a detailed description of a foreboding scene outside a cliff with a webwork of cracks.
assistant
The wash meanders along the base of the wall as the cliffs on either side gradually gain height, throwing deep shadows that chill the air regardless of time of day or season. Like shatter lines in glass, a delicate webwork of cracks shroud the face of the dark quartz, some widened into deep clefts in the side of the rock.