IIRC, she was an empath rather than telepath. Given what you pointed out, if I followed that thought to its logical conclusion I'd get kicked off of FR.
Right you are. But I believe she was both, depending on who the other person was. She was telepathic to trapezoids or whatever they were called, and empathic to humans, So I guess a group of human guys she walked by she could only “feel’ their ‘happyness’...