Not at all, but maybe Bella can help.

The sergeant shook her head. "Of course not. Does it matter? Our job isn't to advertise the knights."

Bella shook her head, keeping her eye strands fixed straight on her friend as she did. "Oh no no no! Ralli, dear, rely on your friend who has so many more eyes to see, okay? They allow me to see the bigger picture!" she declared, framing her face with her hands palm-out and widening them dramatically. "The bigger picture our cute Dyna has conveyed to me is to consider how we can use our sex appeal to improve the lives of the people! To do more than those silly dry old nuns of the church! And how better to improve their lives, my darling, but to improve the quality of their knight trainees?"

Ralli didn't respond for a moment, racking her brain to use her limited creativity and imagine what Bella might mean. "... How? My training regiment is optimal. Sex is a distraction," she growled, finishing off her gruel.

"A distraction? Ho ho, pish tosh! Hardly!" Bella responded dismissively, waving a hand and tilting her head along with her eyes. "Let me ask you this, my dear, and do be honest: how 'optimal' has that training regimen of yours seemed lately? Are you seeing results?"

"The training regimen is optimal, I'm sure," the sergeant spoke slowly, crossing her arms as though she was thinking hard. "The results are... somehow, not. It makes... no sense."

"And how about those cute students of yours, Ralli?" the braineater asked her, fluttering the eyelashes on multiple fronds. "That hunky big boy? The adorable little girlie? That dashing young nobleman's son... Do they seem content and focused on their lessons? Or are they... perhaps in a bit of a funk? Frustrated? Distracted?"

"They don't learn," Ralli growled more deeply. Anyone who saw and heard the fearsome creature would think she was angry at her students, but her friend could tell she was blaming herself.

"They're all pent up! Day in and day out in the sticks here, with hardly an outlet. That was part of Dyna's point, dearie. Meanwhile, as they sit there and stew in their sordid state of affairs, they suffer your teaching style day after day... which is, decidedly, all stick," Bella criticized with a tight smile. "What they need is some of that juicy, juicy carrot you're always hiding from them. If I were you, I'd be happy to give it to them! Ah, humans are actually pretty sexy... And pretty tasty, too~!"

"... Carrot?" Ralli asked, revealing she got lost a long time ago. "The dining hall-"

"Gh! You can be frustrating some times, honey!" Bella squealed, grabbing a few of her stalks in each hand and pulling them comically. "All right, very well. I see must start at the very basics to give you inspiration. As much as I'd love to suck on that tasty noggin of yours and simply spit the ideas into you, true inspiration must come from the heart. Now, tell me truly, dear: have you ever masturbated to the notion of any of those charming humans?"

"... What?" the sergeant asked in a dull voice. It didn't sound disbelieving so much as uncomprehending.

"Er... Masturbation, doll...! F-forget humans a moment, Ralli. Have you... not masturbated? At all? Have you... had zero sexual stimulation at all... since you got here, honey?"

"... Why would a deathspeaker need sexual stimulation?" Ralli asked, her jaw working with apparent frustration that she couldn't answer the question herself.

"... Okay. I'm... not your mother, Ralli. I'm... n-not equipped to teach you how to do this... from square one," Bella admitted, now finally seeming interested in her own food with a deeper red flush on her pink skin. "Look, when you go to bed tonight, try... picturing someone. Anyone you know who can excite you. Try to think about what you find exciting about them... What might be exciting to do with them... And then, simply let your mind... and your hands... wander," she concluded, looking from the grin splitting across her head like she was getting a little excited about the thought of her friend exploring.

"... Sounds difficult," the deathspeaker admitted, resting her chin on one hand. "If it'll make them better knights, though... I'll do it. I can probably direct my thoughts in my sleep. I haven't tried it."

"Yes, do that, and for pity's sake, love, do so without those charming spiny bits of yours. In fact, I'd strongly recommend you do so in your human disguise," Bella offered, rising from sitting. "After all, what better way to think of humans?"

Ralli sat with her hands on the bed, staring up at the ceiling pointlessly as vapors trailed from the corners of her mouth. "Isn't there some book I can read? Some easier way to get this understanding? I... really have no idea..."