And in the end, Selina saved more people by admitting her one mistake than she ever had by being perfectly right.

Selina’s throat tightened. “I… I don’t know anymore.”

At the hospital, the toxicologist delivered the verdict: Galerina marginata . The “funeral bell.” It looked almost identical to the woodtuft but carried the same deadly amatoxins as the destroying angel. Selina had been wrong. Everyone survived, but only after gastric lavage, activated charcoal, and three days of intensive monitoring.