human
Please generate a brief description of a gloomy wilderness setting with a stream and a footbridge.
assistant
Silence rings heavily in your ears, as even the thorny tangles evident elsewhere avoid this area. Protruding from the black sludge, masquerading as a stream, are the remnants of a wooden footbridge. The stream bank dips down here, scooping up a trail that begins where the footbridge was swallowed by the murk.