The ending doesn't make sense? Spoilers Farseer & Tawny Man

[Valarya]

Ah, you're quite lucky you have a man who reads the books you love. I always tried to get my ex-husband to read them but he never did. Of course, now that we're 5 years divorced and GRRMs series has made it to HBO, he's reading those. *shakes head

My current guy has introduced me to wonderful books from his childhood such as Forgotten Realms and Neuromancer type stuff, but never will he pick up RotE or aSoIaF. Ah well.. sometimes two people need SOMETHING apart from each other. That's my excuse.

In regards to your short-novel up there about Hap (which is well-written, as always):

In many ways he lived with, and was raised by, half a person.

I assume the "many ways" can refer to, not only the fact he was just Tom and not Fitz during those years, but that a lot of who he really was was trapped back in the mountains inside Girl on a Dragon. I remember my first re-read of the TM trilogy and how every thought and word spoken by Fitz made so much more sense knowing half his feelings weren't inside him anymore.

(I just started #1 of TM today after having finished LST last night for who knows how many re-reads this is, now.)