human
Generate a description of a magnificent scene outside a town courtyard with fountains, guards, and basins.
assistant
A wide, sweeping stair of gleaming white alabaster carries the eye from the grandeur of the Palace grounds to the equally imposing portico. Giant guards flank the doors, immobile as if cast from stone. The portico itself spreads across the front of the palace offering cool shade from the heat of the day. Several fountains spout from bronze grotesques set into the wall, their streams running down into stone basins where the traveler may quench a thirst or lave dusty feet.