Blackwater Islands entropy

The Listener listed off most of what Bridget would think to teach a novice healer, but the missing bit brought a sparkle of (somewhat dark) amusement to her eyes. The biggest secret we healers keep. It was probably the hardest lesson for any apprentice - that despite your hardest efforts, sometimes it wasn't enough. That saving a wolf's life is more luck than anything else. Timing, will to survive, and even then, sometimes you lose them. She'd lost a number, sometimes without even having a chance. Wraen and Tambourine came to mind, as well as Ibis.

You can't cheat the Dark one his due. She said, before recalling that they had different gods here. Didn't they? Or, whoever guards the gates. Did you have a particular time you were thinking of?

Staving off death was a big ask, but life threatening wounds could be treated and illness could be staved off.