# Opening Hook Audit - Chapter 19

Verdict: HOOK-PRESENT.

## Evidence

- The assignment card immediately frames the chapter's problem: `One ground. Two reaches. Paint the side you can reach. Leave the other side workable.`
- The first prose sentence begins with Theo doing the task that will fail: `Theo unlocked the studio at ten past six and started with the easels`.
- The empty-chair consequence arrives by the third paragraph; no false suspense hides the absence.

## Risk Check

The opening is logistical, but that is Theo's voice and the scene engine. It is not atmospheric setup or filler because the setup action produces the one-stool / two-jar contradiction.

REVISION ORDERS: none.
