D. the reader. The reader will always be the one you're writing for, since the idea of writing, especially academic writing, is usually meant for others to read.
The first and second at first glance looks to have a misplaced modifier, but the first one is the correct answer. :)
White Fang came in until he touched Gray Beaver's knee
At the sound, Kiche leaped snarling to the end of her stick, and there raged terribly because she could not come to his aid. But Gray Beaver laughed loudly
Both nose and tongue had been scorched by the live thing, sun-colored, that had grown up under Gray Beaver's hands
Doomed. Likely to have an unfortunate and inescapable outcome.
