Cheryl could only make use of what was available to her after running away from her family.
She knew how the five great Balancer families worked so well that she knew how to make use of areas that they controlled and did not have much control over.
She knew where their influence did not reach, while she knew just as much how various influences were made use of by those five great Balancer families to gather information and raise funds for their operations.
Some of those operations were legal and above board, yet they had ways of siphoning away some of those funds earned for themselves and to assist with their various activities.
The same thing was happening with how the schooling systems and the Balancer Association were kept running.
Not all of them were completely legal and appeared completely above board.
Some of them were involved with various charitable organisations that took the money from people in the form of donations.
