King of Storms: Part 7
On the one hand, he'd said he didn't think organized crime had infiltrated the Bureau. On the other, he'd just told me not to send him information via the government owned and installed communication systems that pretty much only the government had a reasonable chance of bugging.
Uh-huh.
I decided not to say anything, but he obviously wasn't telling me the full story.
"One more thing before I go," Isaac said. "You're taking martial arts lessons from Lee, sometimes called Günther, sometimes called a lot of other things. In the Bureau, we just call him the Immortal. Watch out for him."
"Lee? Why?"
"How much do you know about him?"
"Let's see... He's a mercenary, a musician. He doesn't die and doesn't have a fixed appearance."
"You've got the surface right. Let's add to it. He doesn't seem to have any noticeable moral code, and he's worked for some of the worst monsters alive in the last sixty years, maybe in the last thousand. He's overthrown governments as far back as written history goes, including at least two Roman emperors. He's on the NSTL and we've got a team tracking him."
"NSTL?"
"National Security Threat List."
"A national security threat? How? He never talks about politics. I really don't think he cares."
"Because anyone who does care becomes a threat the second they hire him."
"Isaac, aside from not dying, he doesn't have any powers. Sure, he knows how to fight, but there are people out there who could personally make a crater out of Washington D.C. He's not one of them."
"Everything I want to say about this is classified, but, if I could say anything, it would blow your mind. Here's a hint though -- we've got psychics, both the mystical kind and the telepathic kind. We had one of the mystics look into him, but, he couldn't even find him. All he could do is see the effects of Lee's passing, and, when he did manage to find something, he mysteriously forgot it all. Then we sent in the telepath. She managed to lock in on him but then she started to scream and try to claw her eyes out. She stayed in a psychiatric hospital for months. No human gets reactions like that. Not even telepaths like Daniel's grandfather.You know what does? Old gods and Lovecraftian horrors."
"Then why do you even let him into the country?"
"We don't want to find out what will happen if we keep him out."