[ There's a lot he knows about John's universe, though some of it may only be known to the God and his closest few. He has wondered if there was some power behind the River, an unseen being, like with the rivers of the Underworld. ]

Do you use thanergy like the other necromancers in your world, or pull from some other source? [ Nico would believe it if he did, one doesn't become God without being different from everyone else.

The teen isn't surprised to be looked at in that way. There are quite a few differences between the way he does things and the people of some alternate, future universe. ]

His soul, yeah. I was kind of able to track it from afar, and there's a cave in the deepest part of the sea where it went. There was a strange sensation, like a dream-like feeling of being close to home. I summoned his ghost while it was in the cave, and tried when he left - only to find I couldn't.