# Opening Hook Audit - Chapter 15

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- `CRITERION 1: PULLS — first 50 words quoted — reasoning: "The tote strap quit on the third-floor landing. Not all at once—a single stitch at the seam, popping with a sound like a knuckle—so June climbed the last flight with nine catalogs cradled against her chest the way you'd carry firewood or a medium-sized dog, chin clamped on" — starts with motion, inconvenience, object pressure, and the Ch14 catalog danger carried literally into June's apartment. The question raised is practical and plot-bearing: what will she do with the dangerous loan?`

- `CRITERION 2: CLEAN — strongest atmospheric candidate quoted and why it survives: "Inside, she discovered that her apartment had no place for them." This is interior space, but not camera-pan atmosphere. It is character-bound because the room matters only as June tests every surface against the nine-catalog object problem. No weather, skyline, or architecture precedes character action.`

- `CRITERION 3: not applicable — Chapter 15 is not Chapter 1 or a part-opening.`

Chapter verdict: `HOOKED`

REVISION ORDERS: none.
