human
Produce a detailed written description of a dreary scene outside a mountain road with moss, lichen, and granite.
assistant
Weather and time have exposed sections of the road to be nothing more than soft dark soil caked atop a shelf of grey granite slabs. Moss and lichen now squeeze their way into the cracks of the revealed stone, the traffic in this area not near frequent enough to crush their growth. Southwards, and up the sloping hills, walls of the grey rock cradle the road, quite the opposite of the increase in soft groundcover and downward slope to the north.