human
Write a detailed description of a dreary scene outside a town yard with garbage, a torch, a banner, and steps.
assistant
The pungent scent of garbage floats out to the street from a nearby alley. A banner, suspended between the two apartment buildings that flank the alley, shudders in the same evening breezes that drive the odor streetward. Even though a torch lights a set of descending steps at the far end of the sidestreet, the glow offers little relief from the dark shadows that gloom the alley walls.