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

<passage>:
TREE the tree named Ashlew, "you're it, Sonny! Hang on there while I signal the Life Kolin sensed a lack of direct tree," he muttered. "If Yrtok I'm as good as re-personalized right now." Peter Kolin had to admit that As he brooded upon the sorry choice of arousing a search by hiding where he his little command, less two third-class ration keepers thought to have been trapped was or going back to bluff How'd you like to stay here?" "I don't know," said Kolin. on parade. Kolin made himself "The penalty for desertion—" You could be a bird, a tree, . He lined them up as if Silenced but doubting, Kolin permitted himself to try the dream on for size. He considered what form might most easily escape the the damage," announced the Chief in clipped, aggressive tones, "I have volunteered my Volunteered HIS section! thought Kolin rebelliously. his musings: mere hope of escape was unsatisfying after the outburst that had defined Like the Supreme Director of Haurtoz! Being conscripted his fuming hatred for Haurtoz. Prudently, he did not express this resentment overtly. His well-schooled features revealed no trace of the idea—or I'd better watch myself! "What I wish I could do is not just get away but get even for the way they make us You know why they world's less kindly techniques had been employed. Lack of complete loyalty to the state was likely to result in a siege of treatment that left the subject don't?" Kolin had heard of instances "Why?" wheezed Ashlew. wherein mere unenthusiastic posture had betrayed intentions to harbor "They're scared that without treasonable thoughts. moment. Kolin felt the Then Ashlew offered a suggestion. "I could tell the Life your side of it," he hissed. "Once issue rations." Kolin permitted himself to wonder when anyone might get some rest, but assumed a he will be replaced by one of State were to survive the hostile plots of Earth and the latter's decadent colonies. scowled in turn, impartially, at his watch and at the weary Kolin found himself in a Since the crew would be eating packaged rations during repairs, Yrtok could be spared to length. Slichow muttered something profane about disregard of orders as he glared at the rocky ridges surrounding the landing place. He was so intent upon planning greetings with which to in regard to food. They would go without. Kolin maintained a standard expression rations could hardly, in an emergency, give even the appearance of favoring themselves bushes Kolin's party had followed, and Kolin brought He froze. After a few heartbeats, he dropped the trash and stared at ship and men as if he had Kolin shared their sense of isolation. They would be out of sight of authority and responsible for their own actions. It was a strange sensation. They marched down into State known as Peter Kolin congratulated itself upon its For all Kolin could tell, he choice of form. He paused to consider the state of the tree named Ashlew, half immortal but rooted to one spot, unable to float on a breeze or through space itself Especially, it was unable to insinuate any part of itself into the control center of another form of life, as a second spore was taking charge of the body of Chief Slichow at that very instant. There are not enough men thought Kolin. and Kolin agreed. on a low shrub. Kolin regarded the trees with The unit known as Captain Theodor Kessel hesitated before even a cloud." shoots that grow back into Kolin looked over his shoulder. notice of search parties and "He must have tasted some!" exclaimed Kolin. "I'll see how he is." He ran back to the cook and shook him by the shoulder. Ammet's head lolled loosely him a doped appearance. Kolin a long time without renewal. to Yrtok. For some reason, he had straightened up and beckoned Then he noticed that she was kneeling. "Hope she didn't eat some stupid thing too!" he grumbled, Another factor slipped into of greenish fur. All Kolin saw was that it had several legs too many. He pulled Yrtok to her feet. She pawed at him weakly, eyes as vacant as Ammet's. When he let go in sudden horror, she folded gently to the ground. She lay comfortably on her side, twitching away. When she began to smile dreamily, Kolin backed away. The corners of his mouth felt oddly stiff they had involuntarily drawn back to expose his clenched teeth. He glanced warily about, but nothing appeared to threaten him. "It's time to end this scout," he told himself. "It's dangerous. One good look and I'm he an easy tree to climb." He considered the massive choice. At first, Kolin saw no way, but then the network of vines clinging to the rugged trunk suggested a route. He tried his weight gingerly, then began to climb. "I should have brought Yrtok's radio," he muttered. "Oh, well, I can take it when I come down, if she hasn't Kolin progressed rapidly. When he reached the first thick limbs, twice head height, he felt safer. Later, at what he hoped was the halfway mark, he hooked one knee over a branch and paused to wipe sweat from his eyes. Peering down, he discovered "Depends on what you're looking for, Sonny!" something remarked in a soughing wheeze. Kolin, slipping, grabbed desperately for the branch. His fingers clutched a handful of twigs and leaves, which just barely supported him until he regained a grip with the other hand. The branch quivered resentfully under him. all summer to grow those!" Kolin could feel the skin crawling along his backbone. you?" he gasped. The answering sigh of laughter gave him a distinct chill despite its suggestion of amiability. you'd ever seen a man grown Kolin looked about, seeing "I have to climb down," he told himself in a reasonable tone. "It's bad enough that the other two passed out without Earth tree." Kolin examined the bark of Kolin, testing the firmness of of the tree trunk. "And, if a tree was a nice, peaceful asked Kolin, twisting about grew big enough to do some "The other trees? That jungle?" didn't twist that branch over "Th-thanks!" grunted Kolin, hanging on grimly. mind and set up a mental field to help him change form. He looks twice as good as a Kolin politely. He groped for a foothold. "Well … matter of fact, I can't get through to him much, even with the Life's 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 to stretch tiring muscles. "Maybe I'd better stay a while," he muttered. "I don't to be a tree." 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 "I wouldn't want to do that, Mr. Ashlew." "There's just one thing. The Life don't like taking "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, sleep for fear you might dream treason and they'd find out somehow." just to live." Suddenly, Kolin found himself telling the tree about life expansion. He dwelt upon the desperation of having no place to hide in case of trouble with the authorities. A talking to a tree wore off. Kolin heard opinions spouting out which he had prudently kept bottled up for years. The more he talked and stormed and complained, the more relaxed he felt.

<question>:
What did Kolin think about becoming a tree himself?

<options>:
A He wanted to be an animal, not a plant.
B He was intrigued but wanted to try something slightly different.
C He figured it was an effective way to escape his crew.
D He refused to give up his own body.

<answer>:

B