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Nile followed Joe and Nicky out of the alleyway where they stopped in front of a truck.
"I still hate this idea," Joe protested as he tore his t-shirt into pieces at the same time as Nicky was doing it. "Remember that."
"I know your feelings," Nicky replied. "But do you have a better idea?"
"Not at the moment," Joe replied. "Here, Nile. Wrap this around your mouth. Make sure to cover your nose too."
Joe handed Nile a piece of his t-shirt.
"Are you bloody serious?" Nile protested. "Hiding in a manure wagon. Is that your brilliant idea?"
"Is either that," Nicky replied. "Or do you want to be shot because the men are getting closer?"
Nile let out a groan as she wrapped the t-shirt around her mouth like the boys were doing. Then Joe gave Nile a horseshoe so she could get over the edge of the wagon before Joe also helped Nicky. When Nicky got up he pulled Joe up and they lay down in the manure. It didn't take long before the manure wagon started to move and while laying in the manure, Nile tried her best to forget where she was at this moment but in vain.
When they were sure they were out of Cairo and at the first stop the manure wagon made, Joe jumped out before Nile and Joe. They quickly got off the road and ran for cover behind a barn.
"I'm not doing that again," Nile protested as she took a sniff at herself. "Never."
"So did Joe also say the first time back in the 12th century and still we are doing it," Nicky replied. "Listen, Nile. You might find hiding in a manure wagon undignified but sometimes there isn't any other way out. We have sworn over and again there are things we would never do again but end up doing it anyway because it's the only way out. And trust me hiding in a manure wagon isn't the worst thing in the world."
Nicky walked over to the clothesline and started to pick out some clean clothes for them.
"Nicky once swore he would never steal again. He hates it but because our lives are as its, he has to break that promise over and over again. That is why he always leaves something even more valuable to those families he is stealing clothes from together with a note in the hope of some forgiveness," Joe said. "The lesson for you here is that you might have one way of looking at things one day but the next day you have to change the way you look upon things because it can save your life. It's a lesson you have to learn Nile. It's a hard lesson, but a necessary lesson."
237 Years Later:
It had fallen upon Nile to take their newest family member on her first mission. When Nile said they were leaving town in the manure wagon there were also protests but in the end, Nile got them both into the manure wagon. A couple of days later when they made camp, Nile was asked why she had left over 2000 dollars and a note for some cheap clothes and what was the idea with the manure wagon. It was there Nile told the new one about Joe and Nicky's hard lesson but a necessary lesson and the value of it.