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

<passage>:
"If there was ever a fellow ready for this planet," decided the tree named Ashlew, TREE Dang vines! Beats all how some plants have no manners—but what do you expect, Kolin sensed a lack of direct "you're it, Sonny! Hang on there while I signal the Life attention. The rustle about him was natural, caused by an ordinary breeze. He tree," he muttered. "If Yrtok snapped out of it and heard, I'm as good as re-personalized As he brooded upon the sorry choice of arousing a search by hiding where he was or going back to bluff things out, the tree spoke. "Maybe you're all set, Sonny. The Life has been thinkin' "The penalty for desertion—" "Whoosh! Who'd find you? You could be a bird, a tree, even a cloud." Silenced but doubting, Kolin permitted himself to try the dream on for size. He considered what form might most easily escape the his musings: mere hope of escape thought Kolin rebelliously. Prudently, he did not express this resentment overtly. His well-schooled features revealed no trace of the idea—or of any other idea. The live … the whole damn set-up. They could just as easy make world's less kindly techniques "Why?" wheezed Ashlew. complete loyalty to the state was likely to result in a siege of treatment that left the subject come, people would have time Kolin had heard of instances wherein mere unenthusiastic posture had betrayed intentions to harbor would get blown up—and I mean blown up!" The tree was silent for a treasonable thoughts. branches stir meditatively. Then Ashlew offered a suggestion. "I could tell the Life your side of it," he hissed. "Once Kolin permitted himself to mildly willing look. (Too eager an attitude could arouse suspicion of disguising an improper of a proper viewpoint was a necessity if the Planetary Kolin found himself in a that the keepers of rations could hardly, in an emergency, give even the appearance of favoring themselves in regard to food. They would go without. Kolin It was tenuous, almost a haze. Close examination would have revealed it to be made up of myriads of tiny spores. They resembled those cast forth by one of the stare measured them. Yrtok, a dark, lean-faced formed a cohesive body. They drifted together, approaching the men as if taking intelligent a sparse creeper grew along their way, its elongated leaves shimmering with bronze-green reflections against a Kolin shared their sense of of sight of authority and responsible for their own actions. Unit One." Throughout the cloud of spores, the mind formerly known as Peter Kolin congratulated itself upon its choice of form. For all Kolin could tell, he Nearer to the original shape of the Life than Ashlew , he thought. He paused to consider the state of the tree named Ashlew, half immortal but rooted to one spot, unable to float on a semi-circle of damp trees and bushes several hundred meters away. He suspected Especially, it was unable to insinuate any part of itself flickered among the foliage. Once, a shrub puffed out an thought Kolin. deceptively distant forest. Yrtok paused to examine some purple berries glistening dangerously on a low shrub. Kolin regarded the trees with misgiving. "Looks as tough to get through as a tropical jungle," he remarked. "I think the stuff puts out shoots that grow back into the ground to root as they "Could hardly be better, could it?" he chuckled to the In two or three minutes, they reached the abrupt border of the odd-looking trees. Except for one thick trunked giant, all of them were about the same height. They craned their necks to estimate "Reformation of the Planetary State," mused the captain, smiling dreamily as he branches. The depths behind it looked dark and impenetrable. "We'd better explore along Kolin looked over his shoulder. sat beside the bush with the purple berries, utterly relaxed. "He must have tasted For some reason, he had trouble attracting her attention. Then he noticed that she "Hope she didn't eat some stupid thing too!" he grumbled, trotting back. As he reached her, whatever dreamily, Kolin backed away. they had involuntarily drawn back to "It's time to end this scout," he told himself. "It's dangerous. One good look and I'm jetting off! What I need is an easy tree to climb." He considered the massive giant. Soaring thirty or forty At first, Kolin saw no way, thick limbs, twice head height, he felt safer. Later, at what he hoped was one knee over a branch and paused to wipe sweat from his eyes. Peering down, he discovered open the top is," he mused. "I wonder how the view will had been employed. Lack of Kolin, slipping, grabbed don't?" Kolin could feel the skin crawling along his backbone. "Who The answering sigh of laughter gave him a distinct chill despite its suggestion of "They're scared that without amiability. talk of war, and scouting I am. Didn't figure you'd ever seen a man grown into a tree before." Kolin looked about, seeing my bark—I'm not like an Earth tree." Kolin examined the bark of the crotch in which he sat. It to think about the way they holes and hollows in its rough surface. "I never saw an Earth tree," he admitted. "We came from Haurtoz." have to live and who's running don't bother with them all, since I came here and found out I could be anything I wanted." "What do you mean, anything Kolin, testing the firmness of a vertical vine. "Just of the tree trunk. "And, if I do have to remind you, it would be nicer if you said Earth years any more. Lost track. I always figured bein' a tree was a nice, peaceful life and when I remembered "It isn't, Mr. Ashlew?" asked Kolin, twisting about in an effort to see what the higher branches might hide. "Nope. Most everything here is run by the Life—that is, by the thing that first grew big enough to do some thinking, and set its roots down all over until it had of it down below." "The other trees? That jungle?" "It's more'n a jungle, Sonny. didn't twist that branch over in time, you'd be bouncing off my roots right now!" hanging on grimly. "Doggone vine!" commented mind and set up a mental field to help him change form. He looks twice as good as a vine!" "He's very handy," agreed Kolin politely. He groped for he started living with a different way of thinking. It burns me. I thought of being a tree, and then he came along to take advantage of it!" Kolin braced himself securely don't have to be a tree." "No?" " to get around and see things. Lots changed to animals or birds. One even stayed a man—on the outside anyway. Most of them have to change as the bodies wear out, which I don't, and some made bad mistakes tryin' to be things they saw on other planets." "I wouldn't want to do "Listen!" Kolin blurted out. "I wasn't so much enjoying being what I was that getting back matters to me!" "Don't like your home planet, whatever the name was?" "Haurtoz. It's a rotten place. A Planetary State! You have to think and even look just to live." Suddenly, Kolin found himself telling the tree about life on Haurtoz, and of the officially announced threats to imagine. Somehow, the oddity of talking to a tree wore off. Kolin heard opinions spouting more relaxed he felt.

<question>:
What might lead the reader to think that Ashlew  is trying to draw Kolin into a trap?

<options>:
A The way in which he offers to talk to the powerful force about Kolin's history
B The holes strewn across Ashlew's back.
C The fact that Ashlew assumed Kolin had been to Earth.
D The fact that anyone would think a tree would be a good being to change into.

<answer>:

A