Wait, wait, wait. She has a finite amount of Radiant Quests?
I don't know if it's properly called "radiant quests" or not. After you become harbinger, you get a quest, "see the companion leaders for work" in your misc quests list. If you track it while one of the companion leaders is your follower, you even get a tracking arrow over their head (can be pretty useful for finding them if they get caught on terrain somewhere back, and you didn't notice). But yes, I've heard that there is a finite number of them, and when you finish them all, those NPCs lose their essential flag. But, as long as they have quests to give out, they are considered essential, and can't be killed.