human
Produce a short description of a gloomy town square setting with banners.
assistant
The wagons and carts that narrow the street's passage are in turn oppressed by the shadows of nightfall. The occasional flapping of cloth banners dangling in breezes above the alleys snaps out defiantly. Every so often, the echo of shuffling footsteps patters in the darkness before being swallowed again in the still of the night.