Carried: Iatrogenic Illness (Caused by treatment procedures)

Harm arriving through the channel meant for care is the signature — the treatment producing the injury, the protector doing the violating. Beneath it is an expectation laid down early and rarely examined: that being handed over to anyone's care means being available to whatever they want. Environments have a way of confirming this, partly by chance and partly by which environments get chosen. The clinical name is a shape, not a diagnosis; what the shape asks for is the expectation brought into the open before the next set of hands takes over.

The people who were supposed to be helping are the ones who did the damage, and it keeps working out that way.

Iphigenia, brought to the altar under the story of a wedding, by the one person whose office was to keep her safe. The form implies a task: to ask what the journey is actually for before agreeing to travel.