# Set-Piece Intensity Audit - Chapter 01

SET PIECE: opening destabilizer / Odile public offer
  spec: Chapter card: `Odile publicly offers June and Theo the last couples slot`; felt experience `tender alarm, the sense that a small mistake has become a door`.
  rendering: `"It is full," Odile said. Then, turning to June and Theo with no change of tone at all: "It was full"` (73); `"Repair that before you leave"` (81); `wrote *June Park* in the left-hand blank... "Your turn," she said` (139-141).
  locked text present verbatim: n/a.
  verdict: HITS.
  reasoning: The beat lands through public room pressure rather than explanation: `the nearest dozen people found reasons to be facing this way` (77), `The room had stopped pretending not to listen` (85), and `The sentence stayed where it was` (85). The final pen handoff turns the hook into consequence.
  misses: none.
  revisions: none.

Chapter verdict: ALL-HIT.
