human
Generate a short description of a deserted setting outside a town courtyard with a floor, a courtyard, and slabs.
assistant
A semi-circular terra cotta veranda rests at the heart of the courtyard, offering brief respite from the sterile swathe of stone. Wind occasionally rakes across the courtyard's slab floor, moaning in a low, muted cadence that carries with it the rasping slither of encroaching desert sand.