"I could make sure she gets some kind of scholarship or whatever," Hardison volunteered. "If cost is gonna be a problem. The parents got decent jobs--" because of course he'd looked them up, of course he had "--but LA is expensive to live in, even in a crummy neighborhood like they're in. Lower middle class, but stable. Might do better if either parent got a promotion, but..."

He wasn't inclined to manipulate the system to get either of them one.