Carried: Shakes (Involuntary repetitive jerking movement episodes)

It shows as trembling that arrives without a matching event in the present — a physical answer to a dread old enough that its subject has never been said aloud. The trigger is usually change in the direction of independence: the movement away is exactly what once carried an unspoken threat, so the body treats a step forward as a step toward annihilation. It comes from a possessive household, the mother's grip most often, where growing up and growing away were made to feel forbidden and dangerous; what the shape asks for is proof, in the present tense, that separation is now survivable.

Nothing is happening and my whole body is answering something from thirty years ago.

Persephone, drawn back underground each time she has made a life in the light, on an arrangement she did not write. The form implies a task: to test whether the summons still has any force behind it.