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If you are propagating faster than light (notice I used propagate rather than travel) you would likely translate through smaller objects without interacting with them. By its nature, FTL travel -- competing with the planck distance -- means a small system body cannot bring enough gravitation to bear on you to even cause a ripple in your path of travel (Notice, I've avoided saying momentum).

Neutrinos are much slower than your ships, and if I understand correctly, many of them can sneak through the Earth (I believe this feat is due to their mass, not their velocity) but the average comet vs your ships is not going to be able to compete

*Edited for spelling since my keyboard hates me

If you keep picking on Norm, there will be another Dr Ess

I write within the age of my narrator, so I can see how the age thing could be misconstrued

I got one foot in the grave

Chapter House (book 6) best book I've ever read

When you read 2-3 Acorna books or anything containing the name "Ender" you come to understand this problem troubles the big names of fiction.

Which sets me to wondering... if the next book is going to have the gang together... you're not going to have time to treat all 20+ characters. (Not unless you write a Robert Jordan-style phone book). I presume some of them must be flattened into bystanders. This would seem to imply they need their moment of closure now / here. I'm referring to threads like Tazar-Solace. You could get away with punting Malpiece-Jaylene's closure into another story since one hasn't heavily affected the other. I assume Petra and L are now permanently out of the loop so there's a few less loose ends to tie up.

Just looking at the story mechanics, the story kind of flirts with us that the jar has some effect on Jaylene (whether, for example, she is unable to destroy it at the end and Tazar is the one least affected, and throws it... or whether it's more insidious - a darkening of her spirit that can never be lifted).

Taking a step further back... is the story really about destroying the horror?Or is it about why Jaylene came back and why whatever is commending all the horrors wants to thwart that? Perhaps this question is best left to the greater story. I don't know.

Try to sneak in a few civilian deaths and one or more kittens

Personally, I'm super happy to be back in a universe where people can swear normally again.

You wouldn't believe how much pain it is editing out our swearing substitutes (like "Oh brother") and making sure that when my characters say sh*t they are actually talking about excrement. When someone describing his wife as having "uneartly beauty" doesn't make sense if your characters haven't heard of Earth.

Total pain in the neck!

Anyway, I notice you're headed in the direction that the characters cuss about magic. But you have other options.

Maybe they cuss about an animal that used to eat them at some point in their evolutonary history. For example, the Dingo. They might go "Holy bite from a Dingo" or "get out of town ya Dingo lover". (PS if you _bite_ into this idea, don't actually use Dingo. Use something cool like "kodo" (shortened from komodo) or "turt" (shortened from turtle))

You got the names backwards

Don't overthink the enigma of [K a j o]. He's too amazing to contemplate.

Anyway, I can't review that chapter in terms of safety, but I will look for the other items you mentioned