question:  What may have gone differently if Ri had listened to Mia?
context: Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] Extrone asked, "Is there a pass?" "We'll pitch camp right here, then," Extrone said. He crossed to Mia, who, along with him, had been pressed into Extrone's party as guides. Once more, Ri addressed the bearers, "Be quick, now!" And to Mia, "God almighty, he was getting mad." "At least, then, I wouldn't be one of his guides. "What hurts most, he pays us for it. "Yes, sir," Ri said, and instantly the two of them readjusted their shoulder straps and started off. And I don't think there's another cargo rocket on this planet outside of the one we leased from the Club. "Everybody and his brother had heard the rumor that farn beasts were somewhere around here. Mia shook perspiration out of his eyes. "After Extrone said he'd hunt farn beasts, even if it meant going to the alien system? I didn't tell Extrone, if that's what you're thinking," Mia said. Too many people already know about the farn beasts. The rocket roared directly over Extrone's tent, turned slowly, spouting fuel expensively, and settled into the scrub forest, turning the vegetation beneath it sere by its blasts. "You'll destroy this one, too," Extrone said. Extrone said, "To begin with, they probably don't even know I'm here. "That's why we'd like you to return to an inner planet, sir." Extrone plucked at his right ear lobe, half closing his eyes. "You'll lose a fleet before you'll dare let anything happen to me, gentlemen. The takeoff blast of the rocket illuminated the area, casting weird shadows on the gently swaying grasses; there was a hot breath of dry air and the rocket dwindled toward the stars. Extrone said, turning, startled.
output:  they could have killed Extrone
options:  they could have shared the truth with the galaxy  they could have killed Extrone  they both could have escaped Extrone  they could have discovered the farn beasts without bait