# Chapter 22 Opening Hook Audit - Current Text

CRITERION 1: PULLS - first 50 words quoted - "The blue dish was dry by eight, which meant June had washed it at seven for no defensible reason. It sat on the drainboard, cobalt going almost green where the glaze thinned at the rim. She wrapped it in a dish towel and set it in her tote for Tuesday," - reasoning: the opening starts with character action under pressure, not scenery. The question is why June is managing a dish two days early, and the voice lands in her dry self-audit ("no defensible reason").

CRITERION 2: CLEAN - strongest atmospheric candidate: "cobalt going almost green where the glaze thinned at the rim" - why it survives: it is character-bound object perception through June's painter eye, not weather/skyline/architecture before character. The object matters because the dish returns in the closing card/tote action (lines 177-179).

CRITERION 3: n/a - Chapter 22 is not chapter 1 or a part-opening.

Chapter verdict: HOOKED.

REVISION ORDERS: none.
