human
Please generate a brief description of a dreary scene outside wilderness bog with water, mire, dead trees.
assistant
The noisome mire to the north stinks of dead and rotting plants. Except for a few ripples near the trunks of the dead trees which dot the mire, the scummy surface of the water is almost perfectly still and placid. The fog hovers a few feet above the water, as if reluctant to touch it.