# Opening Hook Audit - Chapter 01

CRITERION 1: PULLS - first 50 words quoted:
`June had given herself twenty minutes. One look at the painting, no wine, no conversation with anyone who might know her from a handling job, home by nine to the boxes. The plan lasted four minutes, which was how long it took her to learn that *Winter Kitchen* hung`

Reasoning: the opening starts with a plan and immediate failure. It raises why `Winter Kitchen` matters, why June is avoiding people, and what "home to the boxes" means.

CRITERION 2: CLEAN - strongest atmospheric candidate: `hung on the north wall, the best wall at Marchetti Rooms` (3). It is character-bound orientation toward the painting, not a trailer-pan skyline/weather opening.

CRITERION 3: COMMITS - chapter-1 first-scene put-down point considered: the catalog-like program detail at line 5. It survives because the corrected class card and `PAIRS` -> `COUPLES` drift create immediate premise pressure before exposition can go slack.

Chapter verdict: HOOKED.

REVISION ORDERS: none.
