[ He does understand ghost-weirdness, it's practically his life. There will be no argument here about burning an ugly doll if that's what it takes to free the child inside.

Nico won't lie, he kind of wants to touch the door and see if he can make any changes to the glowing stuff. But, he's not that curious and refrains from potentially activating a trap. ]

I always hated having to use blood in the ritual to raise ghosts, so I did regular human food and drink instead.

[ Skirting the "rules" of traditional necromancy, probably only possible due to his lineage. Chances are he won't be bleeding much for the mysteries either, one thing they won't have to worry about him overdoing.

Oh yeah, there it is. The glimmer of an eye at the prospect of having to go through all those books. Just like an Athena kid. ]

I was thinking more along the lines of looking for books with similar runes, you know, on the spine. Not going through every book in the collection.