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Vala
>First person is hard though. How does my reader find out information if my character can't witness it?
Read more detective novels! Chandler and Hammett and Cain, of course, but more modern ones as well. First person is very common for that genre.
Robin Hobb has this habit of making Fitz obsessive, highly focused on one thing, so details mentioned by other characters in dialogue get overlooked. He's heard those things, but not really noticed them–he's storming ahead focusing on something else–whereas the reader has noticed them. Details in the environment may be noticed, but he doesn't really think about them, so he doesn't put 2 and 2 together. She goes a little overboard on this however; one begins to grow irritated by his stupidity.