human
Produce a detailed written description of a depressing scene outside town with small stones, herbs, and ash.
assistant
Small stones once neatly divided this town garden into several colorful patches of herbs and vegetables. Now the stones lie jumbled about. The ground is covered with a permanant layer of suffocating ash. It gets in the lungs, on the clothes. It clogs the eyes. Only when it rains does the bombardment of airborne ash cease. Then it turns into a viscous river of oozing grey mud underfoot.