another WHORL-train passenger?Whorl

I've been away from the list for a while and just getting caught up and trying to come up with a good question--hard to do if you don't have such a detailed recollection of the text as some do. So, I sat down last night and re-read Horn's "My Defense" and came up with the following: (my apologies if it or something like it has already been asked) 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? Or...trying to figure out how to ask a question is not that easy! Or is the answer so obvious and I have completely missed something that makes this question totally superfluous? Mantis, can you make something worthwhile out of this to send on the train? Maybe this gets too far into territory that might be covered in the Short Sun series? Ron Crown crownrw at slu.edu