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

<passage>:
The Ship held an ancient secret that meant life to the dying cast-aways of the void. people's enemies—and found that his betrayal meant the death of the girl he loved. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that and the five younger ones huddled around the box of heat-stones and went to the doorway, padding soft and tight with the anger in him. He shoved the curtain of little skins aside and crouched there with his the dim grey light into themselves, forcing line and shape out of The same landscape he had stared at since he was able to crawl by himself away from the box of heat-stones. Flat grey plain running guarding their sour white berries with thorns and sacs of poisoned dust that burst when touched. the Engineers. Not many of them any more. You could see the dusty lumps where the huts had been, the tumbled heaps of metal that might have meant something once, a longer time ago than anyone could remember. But ones fought over a bone with no meat on it, rolling and snapping on the dirt floor. Kirk shifted his head forward to shut out the sound of them Kirk's voice was soft in his thick throat. "I would like to kill them," he said. "I would like to kill them all." to the heat and said wearily: "You men, always talking about killing! Haven't we enough trouble without that?" The young ones giggled, well out of reach. Lil's thin body was strung tight, quivering to move. "Besides," she demanded, "what have the Officers and the Engineers ever done to you that you should want to kill them—all but the Captain's yellow daughter?" Hope they killed meat." Ma Kirk sighed. "Seems like meat gets scarcer all the time, like the "Maybe," said Kirk heavily, "it all goes to the same place." His anger forced out the forbidden words. "Where everybody says, stupid! Into the Ship." There was suddenly a lot of silence in the room. The word "Ship" hung "Don't you say things like that, Wes! You don't know." "It's what everybody says. Why else would they guard the Ship the way they do? We can't even get near the outside of it." Lil tossed her head. "Well neither do they." haven't got ways of getting into the Ship that don't show from the "There must be something in the Ship that they don't want us to have. Something valuable, something they want to keep for themselves. What else could it be but heat-stones and maybe dried meat?" "We don't know, Wes! The Ship is—well, we shouldn't talk about it. let the Piruts in on us, or the shags, and let 'em finish us quick. Freezing and starving would take too long. There'd be too many of us if we found out, or got mad." Kirk snorted. "You women know so much. If they let the shags or the including the Officers? As for slow death—well, they think we're dumb. They've kept us away from the Ship ever since the Crash , and nobody knows how long ago that was. They think they can go on doing it. They think we'd never suspect." "Yah!" said Lil sharply. "You just like to talk. Why should the Kirk looked at the thin fuzzy baby curled tight in the skins. "There aren't enough heat-stones to go around any more. Why should they let their young ones cry with the cold?" His heart kicked against his ribs. He was scared, suddenly. He'd never to listen. The noise rolled in over them. It hit rock faces polished by the wind, and the drifts of crystalline pebbles, and it splintered into Men and youths like himself, old enough to fight, were spilling out of low doorways and forming companies on the flat ground. Kirk spotted Jakk Randl and fell in beside him. They stood with their backs to the wind, stamping and shivering, their head-hair and scant fur clouts blown straight out. "Is it true, Jakk? Do you know? Because if they are...." hut. Someone tall and slender and the color of the Sunstar from head to foot. drove them, and sometimes the dead ones weren't quite dead and it was too bad for the man who climbed on them. to fight the Piruts, no matter what you thought about the Officers. You three of them would have sense enough to keep safe. Maybe they were in They poured in through the gates of the stone-walled building, scattering up onto the parapet. There were slits in the rooms below and rusty metal things crouching behind them, but they weren't any good for fighting. A man needed shoulder room for spear and sling. mostly with shags, that the Piruts were coming right over the wall. Kirk's nose wrinkled at the smell of blood. He avoided the biggest puddles and found a place to stand between the dead. gave it up. Randl said, "Something funny, Wes. Too many Piruts. They couldn't risk "Some trick." Randl laughed suddenly. "Funny their wanting the Ship as much as you and I do." "Think they could know what's in it?" Randl's narrow shoulders twitched. "Near as we know, their legend is the same as ours. Something holy in the Ship, sacred and tabu. Only difference is they want to get it for themselves, and we want to keep it." He coughed and spat in sudden angry disgust. "And we've swallowed I want to go on living anyway?" or pain. He sat down, crouched on the body of a man who lived only two "Kind of a pal of yours, wasn't he?" "He wasn't very strong. He needed someone to cover him." "Too bad." The man shook his head, and then shrugged. "Maybe it's for the scavenger rats and the living shags who didn't mind turning cannibal. his horny overlids. He said quietly: "I'm sorry to have to tell you this...." He hadn't, after the first glance. "Your father, and his two friends." Kirk shivered. The horny lids dropped over his eyes. "I wish I'd them as if they were strange things and no part of him. "Kirk," he said, "this is going to be hard to explain. I've never done anything as hard. The Piruts didn't kill them. They were responsible, behind it. He licked his lips and repeated hoarsely: "I don't understand." "I didn't want to give the order. God knows I didn't want to! But there was nothing else to do." It was hard to move. He'd never been tired like this before. He'd never been afraid like this, either. He didn't know what he was afraid of. them, fighting on the pillbox walls. But never one he'd known so long, it. went away. There was nothing but darkness, and wind, a long way off. enough to touch it, and no way through. Pa and Frank and Russ, standing under the wall, looking up, and no way through. Looking up, calling to the men they knew, asking for help and getting a spear through the heart. he couldn't throw them off. He was pressed against something. Pa, and the Ship with the heat-stones in it, and the Captain's yellow daughter getting fat and warm while my sisters freeze and go hungry. I'll understand, and I'll make everybody else understand, too!" "That's mutiny. For God's sake, don't make things worse!" the wind. "Listen, you men! Do you know what the Officers are doing up there in the Ship they won't let us touch?" There was an uneasy stirring among the Hans, a slipping aside of that he didn't want to show. He said quietly, but so that everyone could hear him, "Discipline, for One of the four who were left looked over the wall and spat. "Rock's pretty near clean," he said, "but even so...." He shook himself

<question>:
Why might one not want to live in the universe in which this story takes place?

<options>:
A Kids at Kirk's age are routinely hazed and attacked
B Mothers have to support the family through drastic measures
C Survival itself is difficult
D The individuals in the community are not accepting of others

<answer>:

C