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Her name's Sherry Henderson.

Any familial relation to Marion Henderson , the Head Librarian and the child she saved in the mission that caused her death?

Why were her powers becoming unstable? Because Aung was growing stronger?

From Unexpected Consequences

Malady wrote: Any familial relation to Marion Henderson , the Head Librarian and the child she saved in the mission that caused her death?

Given this:

WE are long lived and healthy. Our children tended to be normal in that respect though. We have had to learn to, “pass on,” and allow them to live their lives unencumbered by us.

I'd guess a daughter or granddaughter. There are other Hendersons around too...

Malady wrote: Why were her powers becoming unstable?

You have to understand. It isn’t at all easy to watch people you care for deeply, grow old and or sick and die. It makes it harder to form attachments that you know will wither away in time or might even lead to jealousy and envy. Sherry wanted to fix it if she could. Her power was similar to Dr. Fielding’s in that she could manipulate living organisms into what she needed. She came closest to understanding what he had managed to do. If we’d had more to work with she might have succeeded.

“We knew that Dr. Fielding made his compound somewhere other than where he tested it. We had never been able to find his lab though. Sherry went ahead anyway. She was sure she had found a solution. In a way she did. The compound she created had similar properties to the one tested on us. She then did something foolish. She tested it on herself. All it managed to do was destabilize her control of her power. Shortly after that she lost all control and burned up.