Carried: Rabies

Rage is held at maximum and expressed at zero, on the conviction that any disclosure — of a want, a feeling, a position — will be turned into a weapon by whoever receives it. Since asking guarantees refusal in this reading, and telling guarantees exposure, everything stays in, and the holding shows up as muscles pulling in both directions at once until nothing can move. It was learned exactly: a coercive household that traded in leverage taught that information is currency and trust is a mistake. What the shape asks for is one disclosure made to one person who has never used anything against them.

If I told anyone what I actually wanted, they'd make sure I didn't get it.

Lycaon, whose savagery became his shape, so that what was inside was finally the only thing anyone could see. The form implies a task: to let the rage be spoken while it is still speech.