I need a fatal wound

A gut wound should do it. She would have to bleed out and that would take time enough for her to say goodbye -- plus bleeding out always makes a dramatic death, but I'm not sure if she would last a few MINUTES. She would be probably vomiting some blood if we want to be realistic.

A stab to the lung isn't immediately fatal either...

Gutshot or lungshot would do the trick.

Well, they basically drown in their own blood...It does the trick but I don't think a person drowning in their own blood will have the time or the brains to say goodbye, unless it's a somewhat minor injury that will fill her lungs slowly.

This is getting creepy, hahaha.

The gut slash would be better. I knew someone who died from a blood vessel in a lung bursting, and she managed to say that there was a problem and that was it, because she couldn't talk through the blood.

I agree-- a wound in the belly can be fatal but lingering. Dan Brown had a good description of the process in "The Da Vinci Code" and also Diana Gabaldon in one of the Outlander books.

Gut shot yes would be the best. Area of the liver would be best to ensure it is deadly but still give the person the ability to talk. Also the liver is the filter system for blood so lots bleeding when any damage to that organ.

Poison might work. The victim gets progressively sicker, realizing at some point he/she has been poisoned and will likely die. Depending on the poison used, it could take anywhere from minutes to hours to days.

I remember a medical show once (Saint Elsewhere?) where a person was in a vehicle accident and took at major blunt force trauma to the chest. It bruised the heart so badly that, eventually, it couldn't beat. They figured it out when the person went into arrest, awoke during CPR and went unconscious again. Eventually, they had to let the patient die because they couldn't get the heart to start beating on its own again.

I don't know if you can do something with that, but I've always thought that was an especially tragic moment.

A leg wound that cut the femoral artery would do it.

Anything that would bleed out without immediate medical attention will work here. Lung damage makes speaking very hard. In my current work, which doesn't involve sorcerers, I use a gunshot wound in the upper chest for a similar scene. Aorta, aortic arch, etc. are there. The aorta runs the length of the body and can be hit in the lower abdomen too. The Vena Cava runs through the abdomen as well, and may provide a longer time frame. 5-10 minutes would be believable either way.

Jeff

It takes about 5 minutes for someone to bleed out from slashing the femoral artery. Takes even less time to bleed out from aorta damage.

A stab to the chest that didn't hit a major vein/artery can cause something called a pneumothorax, or air caught between the lungs and the chest wall. This prevents a person from actually drawing air into the lungs. It develops relatively slowly--not immediately--so death without treatment could take 20 minutes or so. Talking is still possible with this, at least for the first few minutes.

A gut would could kill, but how it kills depends on where you're stuck. For example, if you get hit in the liver or spleen, then bleeding out can occur, and probably takes about 15 minutes or so, depending on how severe the laceration is. Hit in the distal aorta (the part that runs thru the abdomen) and bleed out can be in a couple minutes. If you only hit the stomach, or lacerate an intestine, death occurs more from infection from gut leakage than from bleeding, and can take days or even longer. Horrible way to die, by the way.