Nice prose!
Helena has a point though; looking back on past 'dreams' you may notice that first lynches of talkative people have hardly, if ever, led to an Odor Eater's lynch!
With the amounf of nonsensical talk that has happened here, it would be very easy for an Odor Eater to hide in the 'talkative' group; bear this in mind!
Do you have any leads?
At first you encouraged idle talk:
Then when someone actually says someting about getting serious about catching Odour Eaters, you say:
From what I gather here, youa re telling us that continuing to talk about Harriet's butt-scar instead of trying to catch Odour Eaters is the way to go?