human
Generate for me a description of a dreary scene outside a town courtyard with a stone trough, a bucket, and water.
assistant
Stone steps lead upward to the parapet of the outerwall along the perimeter of the courtyard. A stone trough placed next to the steps is filled to the brim with tepid and foul-smelling rain water, and home to numerous insects which dart across the water's surface. Set next to the trough is a rotting wooden bucket, set on its side and slowly collapsing inward on itself under the stress and decay of time.