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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Klaft reported, turning from the breathless messenger as Kinton Terrans to reach the world of Tepokt. For those Kinton repeated his question, wondering about the group The Tepoktan student, whose Kinton smiled wrily, and ran metal pin. He—he stole a ground car and is gone." "He did?" Kinton had an curious to see some of Tepokt. Tepokt, leaving him the only survivor. clicking two claws together, a highly civilized Tepoktans constantly sign of emphatic disagreement. "Albirken," he said, "was soon of our town." "Why did he say he was traveling that way?" asked Kinton, "He did not say," answered Kinton answered in their language, [103] "the number is actually Klaft expressionlessly. "Taking them by surprise, he killed two Kinton looked from him to the Tepoktan was slightly under Birken had been only too accurate. Why was it one like him who got through? he asked himself years. The Tepoktans had been still left Kinton with a feeling to a rage by the killing, Kinton told himself, he would not have been concerned about himself. He Kinton remained conscious of the unable to offer the Tepoktans any question. Before Kinton had formed his he realize that two armed Tepoktans The aide reached Kinton and to fit Tepoktan claws. The constable, reached the surface of Tepokt. of. To protect him, he wondered. Or to get Birken? The pilot headed the craft back toward Kinton's town in Kinton hesitated. Those in the Kinton's institute came into view, they received a radio message about Birken. "He has been seen on the road passing the dam," Klaft reported but eagerly gathered every crumb of information Kinton For ten years, Kinton had answered at last. Kinton settled back in the seat especially padded to fit the contours behind the pilot. In other words, he thought, he was responsible for Birken, who was a Terran, one of his own kind. Maybe they really didn't of Tepokt. The time He wondered what to do. He had no actual faith in the idea that Birken was delirious, or acting under any influence but that of a criminally self-centered nature. "I shouldn't about the ship!" Kinton muttered, gnawing the knuckle of his left thumb. "He's on the run, which some of the Tepoktan scientists body. To help himself forget the completed to Kinton's design. Kinton, disturbed, tried to remember whether he had spoken in Terran or Tepoktan. Would Birken listen if he tried reasoning, he asked himself. Maybe if he showed the man how of Kinton. organized about the person Tepokt were underdeveloped. In approaching, Kinton saw a halted "Never mind landing at the Tepoktans had told Kinton, "or plain toward the gleaming hull. As they passed the man below, Birken looked up. He continued to limp along at a brisk pace with the aid of what looked Kinton turned away from the "Go down!" Kinton ordered. of Tepokt's sun upon the hull of yards from the spaceship. By the time his passengers had alighted, however, Birken had drawn level with them, about fifty feet away. "Birken!" shouted Kinton. "Where do you think you're going?" Seeing that no one ran after to try it. The Tepoktans him, Birken slowed his pace, but kept walking toward the ship. [112] "Sorry, Kinton," he shouted with no noticeable tone of regret. "I figure I better travel on for that the city named in his message was only about twenty miles there!" called Kinton. "I told and Kinton often told my health." "It's not so damn healthy up and Kinton remembered up? Every one was struck and exploded." Birken showed no more change of expression than if the other had commented on the weather. Kinton had stepped forward six or eight paces, irritated despite his anxiety at the way Birken persisted in drifting before him. Kinton couldn't just grab him—bad of Tepokt was passing by He glanced back at the Tepoktans their party," he muttered. He turned again to Birken, who still retreated toward the ship. "But he'll only get himself killed a Tepoktan proverb often applied and destroy the ship! Or A twinge of shame tugged down the corners of his mouth as he realized that keeping Birken here would also expose a highly cultured people to an unscrupulous for a long moment. The Tepoktans committed murder the very first time he had been crossed. "Birken!" he shouted. "For the last time! Do you want me to send them to drag you back here?" Birken stopped at that. He regarded the motionless Tepoktans with a derisive sneer. vehicle awaiting Kinton. Klaft Kinton growled a Tepoktan expression one occupant of the wreck, alive or dead, had been discovered—had accordingly been flown here. with a hissing cry. By the time Kinton's aging muscles obeyed his impulse to sidestep, the spear had already "It's extremely unusual that [113] He felt his face flushing with sudden anger. Birken was running as best he could toward the spaceship, and had covered nearly Kinton ran at the Tepoktans, George," said the plump Tepoktan Or was it the fright at having a spear thrown at him? He decided that Birken had not come close enough for that, and wondered if he was afraid of his own impending action. Kinton could not remember him, but everyone on the planet addressed the Terran by the Kinton made the accepted gesture sound they fondly thought to be Then, abruptly, his lips tightened to a thin line. The sights steadied on Birken as the latter approached the foot of the ladder leading to the entrance port Kinton, without exactly soon," said Kinton. "Klaft general lines of flight diverging gradually to bracket the figure of Birken. One struck the ground beside the man just as he set one foot will—" He broke off at the sound from seeing each, was aware of the Birken's head. The spaceman was blown back from the ladder. He balanced on the crash?" The man stared curiously. Kinton for a few breaths, then seemed to relax. "Al Birken," he introduced himself laconically. "Ten years?" "A little over," confirmed Kinton. over Birken. "He is dead," said Klaft when the constable straightened up What happened to you?" Birken's stare was suspicious. "Then you ain't heard about the intervening ground to bend the new colonies? Naw—you surface, let alone a spaceship. see to him, please?" Kinton "All right!" yielded Kinton, the land-hungry poops figured a visitor. "Ya might say I was explorin'," Birken replied at last. "That's why I come alone. Didn't want nobody else hurt if He questioned the doctor briefly and relayed the information that Birken's leg was broken but that the other injuries were not serious. For the next three weeks, Kinton flew back and forth from his "Possibly," grunted Kinton wrily. only way he could repay the Tepoktans "We, too, have criminals," said Birken's leg, inserting a metal rod inside the bone by a method they had known before Kinton Kinton. "I ... it's just—" "It's just that now I'm lonely the pin would have to be removed after the bone had healed. Meanwhile, Birken seemed eager to learn all Kinton could tell him about the planet, Tepokt. ... again," he said. reticent. Kinton worried Transcriber's Note: [114] Klaft, as if to ease the concern plain on Kinton's face. "In other words, criminals. You suspect this Albirken is such a one, Kinton unhappily. "He will Tepokt's gravity while fleeing from justice." To himself, he wished he had not told Birken about the spaceship. He didn't think the man exactly believed his explanation

<question>:
Who did Kinton want to land on Tepokt?

<options>:
A A woman
B Anyone
C A man
D Birken

<answer>:

A