Human: Compose a short description of a foreboding setting outside a wilderness cave with unsteady ground. a wooded hillside slopes up to the south, rising away from the flat ground of the ancient riverbed. Assistant: 
A wooded hillside slopes up to the south, rising away from the flat ground of the ancient riverbed. A deep depression in the ground near the trail is filled with muddy rainwater, and the tracks and droppings of many animals are visible in the soft ground around its edges.