Carried: Thoracic Sixth /seventh Thoracic Disc (Middle back)

It shows as a total self-containment, a sealed unit that has cut off contact with the world because it trusts nothing there and treats love as something that harms, and is left alone with a chronic pain it simply endures. The seal keeps out both injury and relief. It formed in a thoroughly untrustworthy, self-involved family. What it asks for is to let one thread of real contact through the seal, and see that it does not cost what the old ones did.

I sealed myself off from everyone to stop the hurt, and now I'm shut in alone with a pain I just live with.

Grendel, dwelling apart in the dark beyond the lit and companionable hall, barred from its warmth and nursing his hurt alone. The form implies a task: to be let toward the fire rather than remain sealed outside it.