At first, the neighbours really couldn’t figure out where the smell came from, and they figured that the best thing to do was just to try and ignore it. They assumed that at some point the smell would disappear, but it actually never did. There weren’t a lot of solutions, and to blame each other would just make everything worse. In the end, everyone assumed the smell came from a nearby abandoned house, but they also knew they were going to need to do something about it.
