Comic character assignment

The smell of old printers glue mingled with musty pages hung in the air as palpable as the strict silence which was enforced within the Library of the Abigail Proctor High School. With her black raven hair, and body of a dominatrix, the Librarian, Errin Alecto, seemed some sort of male fantasy, but few were brave enough to linger. Students withered under her looks, her eyes a frightening shade of electric red looked as if they were in a constant state of combustion. Her gaze could cut as if to the center of one's soul. No note or whisper went undetected, and her enjoyment of embarrassing students was no less mild than her fondness for punishing those who broke the laws of silence. Libraries are a place of reverence, for learning, and in her mind a place for collecting the lost loves, dreams, and intelligence of the dead.

While her reputation and image were undeniable, her sense of humor was just as quick. In a small town her self imposed isolation was kindling for conjecture, coupled with television lore, she was often called witch, but she relished those who had the courage or poor breeding to call her a bitch. The administration was shocked when she had asked for a cat to be allowed in the library, as much to perpetuate the image, as well as control the rodent population. Embarrassed, and not wanting to admit they were part of the local gossip; fearful themselves of retribution, whether real or imagined they consented. It was not as if Errin were young and unknown, but her arrival was forgotten, and few remained who remembered the fateful day when she had been left at the altar by her betrothed.

It was on that date when a spark of anger, kindled by false promises, that a fury was born. Outside the laws of good and evil, furies are elements of nature embodied with in a female form who punish rule breakers and criminals relentlessly.