human
Write a detailed description of a spooky scene outside a town yard with houses, soot, and windows.
assistant
A few houses, set back from the road, seem to brood in silence. They are shuttered and look unkempt, their gardens gone to seed and their paint is peeling. The damp night air thickens into fog and swirls about the dim wooden shapes. There is evidence of a fire not too recently, to judge from the rain-streaked soot around the windows and doors and the smoke-stained walls of one house.