I wish you well, explorer, but I wonder: Does the same fate that befell me await you?

Which statement best introduces this information in an essay?
A. the narrator realizes his own mortality and says that I wish you well, explorer, but I wonder: Does the same fate that befell me await you?
B. the narrator wonders whether the reader is also mortal and will eventually die like the people of his universe have done.
C. "Does the same fate that befell me await you?" asks the narrator, questioning whether life can exist under conditions in which air pressure is nonexistent.
D. after discovering that he is mortal, the narrator wonders whether immortality truly exists, asking, "Does the same fate that befell me await you?"