Eventually, the sun probably would kill her, if she were left out in it long enough. Maybe being the desert, somewhere with almost no shade, for an entire day. She wasn't about to share her thoughts on this fully just yet, especially considering what Peter said next.
Can you read anyone's?
She didn't flinch, but she did just outright stop breathing. Phaedra wasn't surprised by the direction this had gone, though. She always reserved the right to be disappointed.
"Just about. It's easier with some people than others." She didn't get into why. That she could be kept out, if you thought about it. That people like Earl were always easier.
Is that an upir thing or a you thing?
Something about how he was asking made this slightly easier to take.
"I've never met somebody quite like me," Phaedra said. "I was picked because I could do this as a human. But I'm getting the impression that you know somebody sort of like me. Who maybe has done some scary shit with this."
She arched an eyebrow and tilted her head, finding Peter's gaze again. Normally, she would ask permission for what she was about to do, but she didn't like the comparison she was inferring. Phaedra concentrated, and she silently sent Peter her memory of being turned--of waking up around that campfire, of there being bodies on either side of her, everyone dead... and of Saerian being there, of him using his power to make her drink. It didn't last longer than perhaps a minute.
Then she dropped the connection. Before it got to painful for her to maintain.
"I haven't read your mind," she said. And that was true. Anything she'd gotten from Peter he was full-on projecting. The tiny tidbit she'd gotten, Letha, her face, that she was gone... he'd worn that like an actual garment.
She didn't say she didn't manipulate people. If he couldn't infer that from what she'd just shown him, Phaedra would be surprised. And also a lot less interested.
Still, there was nothing outright unkind about anything she'd said, or the manner in which she'd said or done it. She was being very patient.
She just did not want this line of discussion to go to a place of accusation.