The Obelisk Gate (The Broken Earth, #2)

by N.K. Jemisin

Schaffa, however, flies backward unobstructed through the Clalsu’s capacious hold, which is empty because the ship hasn’t been out on a piracy run in a while. There’s room enough for his velocity to slow a little, and for the greatest force of Syenite’s blow to move past him. When he finally does hit a bulkhead, it is with merely bone-breaking force and not bone-pulverizing force. And the bulkhead is buckling, crumbling along with the rest of the ship, when he hits it. That helps, too.

Normalize explaining how the villain survives lol

No. No. He knows the price. Better to die than pay it. But it is one thing to resolve to die, quite another to actually carry out that resolve in the midst of dying.

Give Father Earth back his lost child and perhaps his wrath will be appeased.

So interesting that she characterizes the earth as a father

Nida is back at Found Moon, because someone must remain to watch over the children there and because she has the hardest time emulating normal human behavior.

Same