Dame Stephanie Harrington was a Manticoran citizen and the first human to be adopted by a Sphinxian treecat.
Biography
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 her left arm and severely injured one of her legs in a hang-gliding crash, even protecting her from a hexapuma. When he was grievously wounded, Stephanie defended him and mortally wounded the hexapuma with a vibro-knife. After the incident, her father came to her rescue, she took Climbs Quickly with them to be treated. Neither knew then that their experience would later become known as bonding. (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.
According to General MacClintock she was the youngest person to ever discover an alien sentient species and the 'only' person to face an attacking hexapuma armed only with a vibro-belt knife and survive. (HHA2.2: WPD)