The starvation shell held.
He perceived the containment as a boundary: a spherical shell of inverted resonance woven deeply into the bedrock. It surrounded the entity's expanded field. The boundary was active. The entity pressed against it from the inside, a constant, heavy pressure, and the shell pushed back in complete repulsion. The metabolic fuel the old shell had provided—four centuries of Forge-domain energy—was entirely gone. This new boundary offered nothing to consume.
