Selush

Selush was a dresser of the dead in Letheras. She ran the Stinking House with her assistant, Padderunt.
She said men sometimes screamed when they saw her.
==In Midnight Tides==
thumb|Tehol Beddict, Shurq Elalle, Selush, and the ootooloo by [https://www.instagram.com/p/CjswKxNqDlV/ Shadaan] 
Tehol Beddict paid for Selush's services to "enhance" Shurq Elalle's appearance in exchange for Shurq's cooperation in his plans. Selush scoured, scraped, bleached, and disinfected Shurq's body and rubbed fragrant and preserving oils into her skin. She pumped all of the muddy canal water out of Shurq's lungs before infusing them with cinnamon and myrrh. It was also Selush who "installed" the voracious ootooloo that reawakened Shurq's nerves to pleasurable feelings and brightened and reinvigorated her flesh.Midnight Tides, Chapter 6, UK MMPB p.252-254
Shurq had to call on Selush a second time after the thief fell from a roof and impaled her forehead on an iron bar.Midnight Tides, Chapter 20, US SFBC p.600 Selush removed the bar and plugged the hole with a gem in a silver setting.Midnight Tides, Chapter 20, US SFBC p.689
News of the Tiste Edur invasion and the coming fall of Letheras left Selush both apprehensive and hopeful. She began work producing grey foundation makeup in anticipation of fashion trends to be inspired by their grey-skinned conquerors. The first line was inspired by Shurq and Selush called it Dead Thief of the Night. She planned to hide in her basement for a few days until the new rulers settled in.
==In Reaper's Gale==
After Tehol's arrest by the Patriotists, Selush began smoking bushels of rustleaf with worry. Claiming it caused cancer of the lungs, Padderunt attempted to persuade her to switch to rustleaf tea, but she ignored him. While they were working together he noted the severed finger of Brys Beddict she kept in a jar of pink goo was twitching. Selush sent him off to report the event to Rucket of the Rat Catchers' Guild.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 24, US HC p.782-783
==Notes and references==
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