Back three steps, forward two

Chapter 1 is on the chopping block. Ruthlessly cut about 2,000 words of set-up at the beginning, then added about 1,500 in the middle and various places. Can't quite grasp how the catapult my MC out of the family surroundings and to her destiny - right now it feels too abrupt. Don't want to add a chapter, though, because the real story is at the Temple. Have to sleep on it I think. The benadryl is fogging my brain (though it is clearing my lungs).