Inside the Skill Pillars? (Spoilers Farseer and Tawny Man trilogies)

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This is probably one area where it will not come to any certain agreement unless RH says something...

but look at it this way... Fitz was clearly lost in the skill current. He had no way out. He did not "belong" there per se.
Would you not, if a fly kept buzzing around your ear, swat at it to get it away?
Because he did not belong there, in the current, he was such a fly. Being a selfish creature, Tintaglia would at first try to ignore the problem. Hence the month wait. When that did not work. she took care of it. She tossed him out. on his face.

City of Dragons class spoiler

If you recall the arrow Tintaglia got shot with during the prologue. What did she do with it?
She did not at first attempt to pull it out. She instead left it there, ignoring it. In the end (the epilogue, in fact...) it proved too painful, possibly festering, so she resolved to go back to the rain wilds to get it taken out. The arrow, like fitz floundering in the skill current, was like a small fly buzzing around her head. She ignored it till it would no longer be ignored.