named after Stephanie Harrington—the first human to bond with treecats when she figured out what was causing "the Great Disappearing Celery mystery" and ambushed Climbs Quickly in the act of treecat burglary—surprising both races with the resultant bonding that nearly ended the life of both sapients. Improving upon all her ancestors' knowledge, Honor enjoys a closer empathic link with Nimitz than any before, deepening over thirty some T-years to enable her to "taste" the emotions of other humans around her through Nimitz in the earlier works of the series—for example when she foiled the attempt to assassinate the Protector of Grayson in the second novel, The Honor of the Queen. Later books drop hints that Honor may be developing empathic talents of her own even as her life became complicated by the courtship, marriage and pregnancy of Nimitz's mate Samantha in Honor Among Enemies. This hint of psi talents blossomed under stress during her captivity on the way to the prison planet Hades when she is held far apart from Nimitz (in In Enemy Hands), and thereafter gradually becomes an overt capability she initially prefers not to have, then accepts. The ability grows gradually into a formidable ability to "read people correctly" as perceived by outsiders, but is from the start always a closely guarded secret. Eventually, it becomes overtly recognized by her closest confidants and suspected by a few others. It eventually becomes a nearly open secret acknowledged to various other high-ranking allies in the novels after Ashes of Victory. For example, in A Rising Thunder this point is directly addressed in dialog with the Haven diplomatic delegation visiting Manticore in the discussion about whether the Mesan Alignment actually exists. Honor's career and the success of the collected works in the Honorverse really cannot be understood without her association with Nimitz and then, through him, her association with other treecats, as is gradually revealed through stories such as Changer of Worlds where the treecat community endorses Samantha and Nimitz's decision to emigrate with volunteers and their kittens off planet. The encounter and other short stories in the anthologies provides much deep background about human-treecat relations, and reveal, as explicitly stated in A Rising Thunder, the treecat elders and society as a whole have effective recordings of their experiences with humanity through the offices of their Memory Singers, like Samantha, and further they confer planetwide about decisions regarding their relationships