Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.

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"The other Terran has gone," Klaft reported, turning from the breathless messenger as Kinton followed him from the machine. The Dome of Eyes made it almost impossible for Terrans to reach the world of Tepokt. For those who did land there, there was no returning—only the bitterness of respect—and justice! The Tepoktan student, whose blue robe in George Kinton's "Gone? Where did they take and clucked, "when none would place on the dais before the "Get on with it, Klaft! "Then you can give us no precise ground car and is gone." stomach. "Is it known where he went? I mean ... he has been curious to see some of Tepokt. belt and down to the surface of Tepokt, leaving him the only survivor. Barred off as they were from venturing into space, the highly civilized Tepoktans constantly displayed the curiosity of Perhaps—" hurtled through the meteorite dreamers in matters related to He stopped, his own words whirling about their "He did not say," answered the third before fleeing with one What? the total." Tepoktan was slightly under Kinton's height of five-feet-ten, with a long, supple trunk. Under the shortness of their two bowed legs was not obvious but the in silent anguish. After ten years. The Tepoktans had been thinking well of Terrans, but now— got through? he asked himself He should be used to it after enough established, whether or to him. though he was the first stellar Kinton remained conscious of the fact that in many fields he was unable to offer the Tepoktans any new ideas. In one or two ways, he believed, no Terran could "We must get into the air immediately," he told Klaft. he reaches—" He broke off at the word answer, the golden curtains at the rear of the austerely simple chamber parted. Klaft, the Tepoktan serving the current year toward the dais. The twenty-odd ground outside drop away. Only upon turning around did he realize that two armed Tepoktans had materialized in time to follow Klaft inside. bent to hiss and cluck into the out the message inscribed on the step toward the waiting group. "I am informed that another ship from space has reached the surface of Tepokt. My presence is requested in case the crew are of my own planet." [104] of. Or to get Birken? Long before the buildings of They would hardly learn anything over the course of years. The Tepoktan scientists, historians, and philosophers had respectfully but eagerly gathered every on Terra twenty light years away, he shook his head at Klaft's respectful protest. about that the rest of their lives! of his Terran body, and come out of curiosity." [111] was a Terran, one of his own kind. Maybe they really didn't want to risk hurting his feelings, from the somewhat longer revolutions of Tepokt. The time would come when he would age and die. Whose wishes would but that was only part of it. then prevail? To help himself forget the rather preoccupied manner in which some of the Tepoktan scientists his left thumb. "He's on the run, right down through the Dome of occasionally eyed him, he peered down at the big dam of Kinton, disturbed, tried to remember whether he had spoken in Terran or Tepoktan. Would Birken listen if he tried reasoning, he asked himself. organized about the person In some ways, compared to [105] those of Terra, the industries of Tepokt were underdeveloped. In the first place, the population was smaller and had different In the distance, beyond the of openings through the standards of luxury. In the second, a lone figure plodded toward the "Never mind landing at the "We do not know if they have always been meteorites," the Tepoktans had told Kinton, "or whether part of them come from a destroyed satellite in a descending curve across the As they passed the man below, that no direct path through a very short while in advance." of Tepokt's sun upon the hull of the spaceship they had also built for him. Perhaps ... would it drawn level with them, about For ten years, Kinton had failed to work up any strong desire to try it. The Tepoktans "Where do you think you're going?" fifty feet away. Seeing that no one ran after called the ever-shifting lights the Dome of Eyes, after a myth individual on the surface. Like their brothers on Terra, the native astronomers could trace "I figure I better travel on for "Wait! Don't you think they was only about twenty miles from his home. The brief twilight of Tepokt was passing by the time he set foot on the landing six or eight paces, irritated despite break the older man in two. elapsed, most of them would be some of which could already be planets of the system, but in a short while the tinier ones in to his lips died there. their leaving the pilot to bring up the a Tepoktan proverb often applied [106] by the disgruntled scientists destroy the ship! Or Kinton observed, however, that his aide also stared upward for a long moment. The Tepoktans loved speculating about the unsolvable. They had even founded if some miracle gets him through, that's worse! He's to send them to drag you back here?" Birken stopped at that. He regarded the motionless Tepoktans with a derisive sneer. "They don't look too eager to few facts about the new arrival. the meaning of which He whirled to run toward the two steps, however, when he saw A way was made through the entrance. Within a few minutes, down at a pallet upon which lay another Terran. spaceship, and had covered nearly half the distance. Kinton ran at the Tepoktans, brushing aside the concerned weaved and danced about the guessed. "I bow to your wisdom, George," said the plump Tepoktan him, but everyone on the planet addressed the Terran by the sound they fondly thought to be his first name. of greeting with one hand to a thin line. The sights around his neck with pleasure. leading to the entrance port Across the hundred-yard space seeing each, was aware of the general lines of flight diverging gradually to bracket the figure He broke off at the sound from One struck the ground beside on the bottom rung of the ladder, of the ship before exploding. Two others burst against the of the ladder just above his heels for a moment with outstretched had been torn. Then he crumpled understand. You see, I've been here ten years without ever having another Terran to speak to." anything gets through to the with a curt wave. "Then you ain't heard about the new colonies? Naw—you musta come here when all the planets were open." "We had a small settlement on the second planet," Kinton told him. "You mean there are new Terran colonies?" "Yeah. Jet-hoppers spreadin' all over the other five. None of the land-hungry poops figured a way to set down here, though, or "Well?" months!" planet too." "How did you happen to do it? Run out of fuel?" seconds before dropping his civilization were followed by less rule—prisons, for instance. about. and relayed the information slowly. among my own ... among Terrans. Should he have a chance to go back and commit more logic of it," said Klaft. "I meant the few meetings which were the only way he could repay the Tepoktans for all they did for him. On the other hand, the chance to the hospital. Birken seemed eager to learn all Kinton could tell him about the planet, Tepokt. About himself, he was remarkably reticent. Kinton worried too much of this Terran," he warned Klaft uneasily. "You, too, have citizens who do not always ... that is—" Tepokt's gravity while fleeing from justice." To himself, he wished he had of why there was no use taking one gray dawn, the news reached him.

<question>:
How do the first two lines connect with the rest of the story?

<options>:
A Birken feels the bitterness of respect and justice.
B The lines do not connect to the rest of the story.
C Kinton feels the bitterness of respect and justice.
D No more Terrans land on Tepokt.

<answer>:

C