Dame Stephanie Harrington was a Manticoran citizen and the first human to be adopted by a Sphinxian treecat.
She was born on Meyerdahl as the daughter of Richard Harrington and and his wife Marjorie.
At the age of eleven T-years, she was a precocious young girl who figured out how to obtain images of whatever was stealing celery from her family's farm. Climbs Quickly, a treecat of the Bright Water Clan, became fascinated with her and her mind-glow. He came to her assistance when she broke one of her legs in a hang-gliding crash, even protecting her from a hexapuma. When he was grievously wounded, Stephanie defended him and killed the hexapuma with a vibro-knife. During the incident, they bonded, and when her father cames to her rescue, she took Climbs Quickly with them to be treated. (HHA1.1: ABF)
Treecats referred to her as Death Fang's Bane, while she named Climbs Quickly Lionheart. She rose to the rank of Brigadier in the Sphinx Forestry Service and was awarded the Order of Merit, but declined the Order of the Star Kingdom. Simmons wrote a biography of her named Trailblazer of Dreams and Tsukie Akimoto painted a well-known portrait of her and Lionheart. (HHA2.2: WPD)