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

<passage>:
by BASIL WELLS Marooned on a world within a world, aided by a slim girl and an old warrior, Patrolman reflected waves of sound were of little value. Distances were far too cramped—disaster might loom but a few hundred feet away. He found the opening less than ten paces from the starting point, an empty cavity higher than a man and half as wide. The glow from the glowed redly from its lensed prison to reveal the rocky corridor stretching out ahead. Light! How many hours later it was when the first faint glow of white light reached his eyes Rolf did not know—it had seemed an eternity of endless plodding along that smooth-floored descending tunnel. Then the light brightened before him as he rounded a shouldering wall of smoothly trimmed stone, and the floor fell away beneath his feet! He found himself shooting downward into a vast void that glowed softly with a mysterious all-pervading radiance. His eyes went searching out, out into undreamed distance. For miles below him there was nothing but emptiness, and for miles before him there was that same glowing vacancy. Above the cavern's roof soared majestically upward he could see the narrow dark slit through which his feet had betrayed him, and he realized that he had fallen through great shining gulf, Rolf could see that a broad band of stone divided the green fertile plains and forests from the desolate desert wastes of content to let it move in that direction—from the heights of the wall he could scout out the country beyond. So slowly was the spinner dropping that the blackened desolation of the other hemisphere came sliding up beneath his boots. He looked down into great gashes in the blackness of the desert and saw there the green of sunken oases and watered canyons. He drifted slowly toward the opposite "Down, Altha," a deeper voice rumbled from above, "it's one of the among the outlaws. This mysterious world that floated above the cavern floor might be their headquarters. "But, Mark," the voice that was now unmistakably feminine argued, "he Rolf found himself staring, open-mouthed, at the sleek-limbed vision that parted the bushes and came toward him. A beautiful woman she was, with the long burnished copper of her hair down around her waist, but beneath the meager shortness of the skin tunic he saw that her firm flesh was covered with a fine reddish coat of hair. Even her face was sleek and gleaming with its coppery covering of down. "Altha," he scolded, scrubbing at his reddened bald skull with a The girl laughed, a low liquid sound that made Rolf's heart pump faster. "This Mark Tanner of mine," she explained to the patrolman, "is always afraid for me. He does not remember that I can see into the minds of others." She smiled again as Rolf's face slowly reddened. "Do not be ashamed," grueling years of training on Earth Base. His instructors there had known that a few gifted mortals possess the power of a limited telepathy, and the secrets of the Planet Patrol must be guarded. "That is better, perhaps." The girl's face was demure. "And now perhaps you will visit us in the safety of the vaults of ancient Aryk." "Sorry," said the tall man as Rolf sprang easily from the ground to their side. "I'm always forgetting the mind-reading abilities of the Hairy People." "She one of them?" Rolf's voice was low, but he saw Altha's lip twitch. years ago—2053, I believe." "Only we were not lost on the surface," explained Tanner, his booming voice much too powerful for his reedy body, "Wayne Stark was searching Rolf followed the direction of the other's pale blue eyes. Overhead now hung the bottom of the cavern. An almost circular island of pale yellow lifted above the restless dark waters of a vast sea. Rolf realized with the salvation of Earth's thirsting colonies almost within reach. Once he could lead the scientists of North Mars to this treasure trove of water.... "Mark!" The girl's voice was tense. Rolf felt her arm tug at his sleeve Barrier from the fertile plains of Nyd to raid the Hairy People. They take them for slaves." "I must warn them." Altha's lips thinned and her brown-flecked eyes flamed. "The outlaws may capture," warned Tanner. "They have taken over the "I will take the glider." Altha was on her feet, her body crouched over to take advantage of the sheltering shrubs. She threaded her way swiftly back along a rocky corridor in the face of the Barrier toward Tanner shrugged his shoulders. "What can I do? Altha has the blood Then he knew. Above half naked feminine bodies, sinuous and supple as the undulating coils of a serpent, rose the snaky ditigrade head bone lolled the hideous queen of that advancing horde. Gaunt of body she was, her scarred gray-furred hide hanging loose upon her breastless frame. One eye was gone but the other gleamed, black and beady, from her narrow earless skull. And the skulls of rodents and men alike linked together into ghastly festoons about her heavy, short-legged litter. of countless lashes. Their bodies, like that of Altha, were covered with a silky coat of reddish hair. A shadow passed over their hiding place. The Furry Amazons too saw the indistinct darkness and looked up. High overhead drifted the narrow winged shape of a glider, and the warrior women shrieked their hatred. Gone now was their chance for a surprise attack on the isolated canyons behind them, their powerful earthly muscles negating Lomihi's feeble Then there was faint light again, and the high-vaulted roof of a rock dungeon rose above him. Mark Tanner was peering out a slitted embrasure that overlooked the desolate land of the Hairy People. Tanner's finger pointed. "Altha!" Rolf saw the graceful wings of the glider riding the thermals back toward the Barrier. "She had warned the Hairy People, and now she returns." "Right." Tanner kept his eyes on the enlarging winged shape of Altha's the seas and hoarding them in their underground caverns, Lomihi became were their slaves. In the revolt that eventually split Lomihi into two "The outlaws!" he cried. "They're after Altha." Rolf caught a glimpse of a sleek rocket flyer diving upon Altha's frail glinted with a dull bronze, were attacking them from the burnt-out wastelands. The Hairy People had come to battle the invaders. He guided the frail wing toward the shattered badlands where the girl flyer he could escape from Lomihi, return through the thirty-seven caverns to the upper world, and give to thirsty Mars the gift of limitless water again. the guard's rifle expoder in his grasp the problem of escape from the inner caverns was solved. He would rescue the girl, stop at the Cautiously his head twisted until he could look forward toward the controls. The bound body of Altha Stark faced him, and he saw her lips twist into a brief smile of recognition. She shook her head and frowned the wreck in the upper cavern and the long trek afterward through the dark tunnels had sapped his strength, and now he felt victory slipping from his grasp. He saw Altha's bound body and head. Her jaws were clamped upon the rocketing skyward. Behind him the thin film of surface oil no longer burned and the conditioning unit was clearing the air. "Patrolman," the girl's voice was beside him. "We're safe!" Altha smiled shyly and winced with pain. "Do you know," she said, "even

<question>:
What was the special power held by Altha?

<options>:
A She could see in the dark.
B She could see into other's minds.
C She feared nothing.
D She could see into the future.

<answer>:

B