Well, not so mini by Facebook excerpt standards, anyway! Here’s the official #1 mini-excerpt from Aaron Allston’s X-Wing: Mercy Kill.
Then she noticed that Trey had stopped talking. Instead, he was leaning forward, his forehead pressed against a heavy-duty, locking transparisteel cabinet.
Myri moved until she could see his face. “Four? You suddenly look like you want to cry.”“I do.” He stepped back from the cabinet and shone his glow rod on its contents.
The cabinet had two shelves, themselves transparisteel. On the top shelf were two silvery bowl-like stands, and in each rested a globe larger than a balled human fist—a globe with dials and a depressible button.
Myri stared at them for a moment, then clamped her hand over her mouth to suppress a gasp. “Thermal detonators.”
“Two of them.” Trey’s voice was almost rapturous. “I have to steal these.”
Myri also featured in the Wednesday preview excerpt. Mercy Kill will be out in hardcover August 7.
So, I guess, like…Thermal Detonators are really rare now?
…Or he’s got a REALLY weird kink?
Kleptomaniac?
Both excellent alternatives. Or maybe Trey is just badly over-excitable and Myri is so relentlessly sarcastic that by this point in the book the reader no longer needs identifiers to know that she’s being a wise-ass.