Carried: Thoracic Second Vertebra (Upper Back)

It shows as a heart deliberately closed, feeling and vulnerability shut off after enough fear and injury, connection refused before it can cost anything. Love is treated as a thing that harms, other people as not to be trusted, and there is little warmth left over for oneself. It was the outcome of an untrustworthy, attacking family. What it asks for is to let one safe person past the guard, in a small way, and survive it.

I shut my heart after it was hurt enough times, and now I won't let anyone in to do it again.

Coriolanus, armoured past all softening, who would sooner lose everything than let himself be moved or seen to need, undone in the end by the one bond he could not fully seal. The form implies a task: to let oneself be reached without treating it as defeat.