# Opening Hook Audit: Chapter 03

CRITERION 1: PULLS - first 50 words quoted: "TUESDAY ONE BRING NOTHING. LOOKING IS THE ASSIGNMENT. THIRTY SECONDS. DO NOT LOOK AT THE PAGE. Chapter Three: Thirty Seconds, Don't Look. June arrived with nothing, which was the assignment, and began wanting a pencil on the second stair." Reasoning: the card creates an immediate procedural question, and the first sentence turns it into June's character problem.

CRITERION 2: CLEAN - strongest atmospheric candidate: line 11 paint-cross-section door description. It survives because character presence and action have already started at line 9; the door is filtered through June's painterly perception, not a camera pan.

CRITERION 3: not applicable - not chapter 1 or a part opening.

Chapter verdict: HOOKED.

REVISION ORDERS: none.
