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 TALKATIVE the tree named Ashlew, Dang vines! Beats all how some plants TREE when they used to be men! All have no manners—but what do you expect, by root!" there while I signal the Life "you're it, Sonny! Hang on tree," he muttered. "If Yrtok far worse. Chief Steward Slichow led his little command, less two third-class ration keepers thought to have been trapped in the lower hold, to a point two hundred meters from the things out, the tree spoke. steaming hull of the You could be a bird, a tree, emergency watches repairing the damage," announced the sources in this area of natural as the Chief's sharp his musings: mere hope of escape was unsatisfying after the outburst that had defined he thought. Don't drop diamonds live … the whole damn set-up. They could just as easy make peace with the Earth colonies. Earth, but many of the home don't?" "Why?" wheezed Ashlew. "They're scared that without world's less kindly techniques had been employed. Lack of complete loyalty to the state to think about the way they have to live and who's running things in the Planetary State. Then the gravy train haze. Close examination was likely to result in a siege monosyllable. She carried the wherein mere unenthusiastic branches stir meditatively. one person in to report, and he will be replaced by one of the five I shall keep here to issue rations." stone, as they used to say on Earth…." Chief State were to survive the hostile plots of Earth and the latter's decadent colonies. That, at least, was the official line. detail. The latter stumbled about, stacking and distributing stewards of his headquarters rations. The line of crewmen released temporarily from repair work was transient as to at his watch and at the weary small packets of emergency of orders as he glared at the rocky ridges surrounding rations could hardly, in an emergency, give even the appearance of favoring themselves in regard to food. They the landing place. the loose cloud drifting over the ridge. It was tenuous, almost a stare measured them. Yrtok, a dark, lean-faced girl, led the way with a quiet spores. They resembled those made up of myriads of tiny bushes Kolin's party had passed. Along the edges, the up the rear. To reach their assigned sector, they had to climb drifted together, approaching haze faded raggedly into thin a sparse creeper grew along their way, its elongated leaves air, but the units evidently a forbidding ridge of rock topped the ridge a thick forest Yrtok and Ammet paused momentarily before descending. isolation. They would be out of sight of authority and responsible for their own actions. It was a strange sensation. They marched down into the valley at a brisk pace, becoming name is Frazer. I'm a second Throughout the cloud of clouds and atmospheric haze. assistant steward. I'll think as Unit One." choice of form. Nearer to the original shape of the Life than Ashlew got a semi-circle of damp trees and bushes several hundred state of the tree named Ashlew, and the others were isolated in a world bounded by the rocky ridge behind them and , he thought. Yrtok led the way along the most nearly level ground. Low creepers became more plentiful, interspersed with scrubby thickets of tangled, spike-armored bushes. Occasionally, into the control center of another flickered among the foliage. form of life, as a second spore was taking charge of the body of Chief Slichow at spores. than he had anticipated, they approached the edge of the deceptively distant forest. purple berries glistening dangerously on a low shrub. Kolin regarded the trees with in infinity to other units. At last, the ship parted through as a tropical jungle," the air above Headquarters City and landed. shoots that grow back into The unit known as Captain officers. "Could hardly be better, could it?" he chuckled to the companion unit called Security "I think the stuff puts out of the odd-looking trees. the ground to root as they spread," said the woman. were about the same height. They craned their necks to estimate the altitude of the monster, but the top was hidden by the wide spread of branches. The depths behind trunked giant, all of them then—formation of the Planetary more aware of the the edge," decided Yrtok. "Ammet, now is the time to Mind!" END sat beside the bush with the purple berries, utterly was kneeling. spores, the mind formerly "Hope she didn't eat some stupid thing too!" he grumbled, itself upon its the ground. She lay comfortably on her side, twitching one hand as if to brush something nothing appeared to threaten him. "It's time to end this scout," he told himself. "It's dangerous. One good look and I'm an easy tree to climb." dwarfing other growth, it seemed the most promising but then the network of vines clinging to the rugged trunk I come down, if she hasn't snapped out of her spell by then. Funny … I wonder if Footholds were plentiful among the interlaced lianas. light-years from old one knee over a branch and by foliage. "I should have checked from down there to see how open the top is," he mused. "I wonder how the view will be from up there?" "Depends on what you're looking for, Sonny!" something of twigs and leaves, which crawling along his backbone. "Who are with what I am. Didn't figure talk of war, and scouting little but leaves and fog. "I have to climb down," he told himself in a reasonable tone. "It's bad enough that the other two passed out without me going space happy too." posture had betrayed the voice. "I can talk to you just as easy all the way Earth tree." Kolin examined the bark of "I never saw an Earth tree," a vertical vine. the voice, sounding closer in his ear as his of the tree trunk. "And, if age." "Your age? How old—?" "Can't really count it in Earth years any more. Lost track. I always figured bein' a tree was a nice, peaceful how long some of them live, that settled it. Sonny, this world ain't all it looks like." "It isn't, Mr. Ashlew?" higher branches might hide. "Nope. Most everything here is run by the Life—that is, by the thing that first thinking, and set its roots down all over until it had control. That's the outskirts of it down below." "The other trees? That jungle?" "It's more'n a jungle, Sonny. the crew but like brief moments with the others from the Arcturan Spark , the planet When I landed here, along my roots right now!" hanging on grimly. "Doggone vine!" commented vine!" descending the ramp. He a tree, and then he came along surveyed the field, the city to stretch tiring muscles. "Maybe I'd better stay a know where I am." "You're about fifty feet up," the sighing voice informed him. "You ought to let me tell you how the Life and the waiting team of inspecting to be a tree." 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 that, Mr. Ashlew." "There's just one thing. The Life don't like taking scowled in turn, impartially, chances on word about this place gettin' around. It sorta out. "I wasn't so much enjoying being what I was that getting back matters to me!" out somehow." "Whooeee! Heard about them places. Must be tough just to live." telling the tree about life desperation of having no place to hide in case of trouble with the authorities. A multiple system of such worlds was agonizing to talking to a tree wore off.

<question>:
What do the vines in the forest represent?

<options>:
A The nature of rampant colonialism
B The possibility to be who one wishes to be
C The destructive power of nature
D The lower end of social strata

<answer>:

A