# Digest whorl.v006.n020 *The Whorl list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 26 Jun 1997* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Kevin McGuire *26 Jun 1997, 23:57* Ron Crown writes: > Why does the monitor, having given the passengers in the lander a choice > between Blue or Green, overrule their (Quetzal's) choice of Green? Or > maybe why were they given a choice in the first place, if the monitor > already knew where to go? Or was the fact that it was Quetzal (an > inhumi) who made the choice cause the monitor to change from the Green > (the inhumi whorl) to Blue? This is a question that bothered me also. I tried to ask it of Wolfe when he was on the People chat, but I was so flustered that I confused Blue with Green, and Gene gave an accurate, but unhelpful reply. I made up for it later though... I think this question definitely should be on the train, and if it matters, I think the first formulation is the best. Cheers, ---