"Your results are excellent; I will take you to the Officer Academy myself." Shrunk in an airport chapter 13 by Louka31

After carrying you to the Officer's Academy in her coat pocket, she hands you over to the Superintendent. The Superintendent looks as if she is a younger relative of some sorts. The Baroness is in her late 20s; the Superintendent is in her early 20s, maybe even one or more years younger though clearly a young adult.

The Superintendent places you at the entryway to a dollhouse barracks. "C'mon, little fellow, into the Academy--you dare not disappoint the Baroness." That is your introduction to a year of training.

You learn about military politics. Apparently the salary of the Baroness as Colonel of her Regiment is based on a fee per soldier, as each soldier is--as a slave of the Queen--a Crown Asset that the Regiment Colonel is paid for managing. The Queen however requires her Regiment Colonels to deduct a small fee of the larger fee they receive for each soldier delegated to the command of a junior officer, for the benefit of the junior officer.

This however is only true, if the junior officer is a free fairy woman. As Regiment Colonels win the Queen's trust, she tends to grant them privileges, privileges to hire themselves for subordinate positions as well as their command position and privileges to extract slave-soldiers out of the Regiment to keep as personal property.

Of course, if the Regiment Colonel also holds subordinate positions, the rule of "one position per person" still applies, meaning that she must delegate that position to one of the slave-soldiers she pocketed as her own. Even then, a truly trusted Regiment Colonel would have plenty of slave-soldiers that she could keep as household assets.

Indeed when free fairy women, of which a quota always had to be employed as Regiment Officers, themselves gained the trust of a trusted Regiment Colonel, then the Regiment Colonel had a customary obligation to signal her trust by donating a slave-soldier to the junior officer as a sort of tip. Then as the junior officer rose up, she herself had to decide which ones to entrust subordinate army positions to and which ones to keep as household assets.

When Baroness Emilia, your Regiment Colonel, returned to visit your class's graduation ceremony, she...