human
Produce a detailed written description of a foreboding scene outside a town market with tables, merchants, and stalls.
assistant
The palace does not seem quite so dominating from this section of street, perhaps due to the pleasant columned atrium that breaks up its foreboding westernmost walls. Merchants have packed the area beneath the atrium with item-heavy tables and simple stalls. While this would have been highly illegal at best during the height of the Empire, this is apparently overlooked by the local authorities now.