"- I thought you were going to warn her -"

"I've been trying configuration of intentions in my head for the last few minutes - wouldn't have worked -"

He would like her to turn around and tell Minor "it's okay, didn't work - ugh, what an unpleasant feeling, though -"

That doesn't seem like something she decided to do...

Yes, she did, she decided to do that, she wants to do that.

...why did she decide she wanted to do that? She can't reconstruct the reasoning. She would need a reason to lie to Minor, definitely.

It's such a lovely idea. It's such a tempting idea. She definitely wants to do that and she definitely decided to do it.

Acting on tempting impulses while under the influence of the Imperius Curse seems like not exactly the ohhhhh she sees what's going on here she tilts her head quizzically and draws a wand and Disarms Timothy. (Catching the wand is hopeless, of course.)

He's startled for half a second and then - "nice!"

"Thanks," she snorts.

"Better now than - under pretty much literally any other set of circumstances."

"Yeah. That was weird."

Nod.

...she goes and gets his wand and gives it back.

"Thank you. It's typical to get better with practice but I'm not sure you need it."

"How fast do people get?"

"I have heard of people getting pretty nearly instantaneous but not witnessed faster than 'shakes off first substantive command' myself."

"How long did it actually take, I'm not sure I had a great sense of time."

"Forty-five, fifty seconds? But if you just want someone out of action for that long there are - less 'unforgivable curse' ways to do it, and you didn't do anything."

"What'd you try to make her do?"

"I'd actually rather not say, I've found a very-nearly-ethical way of training people to throw off the Imperius and I bet it doesn't work if they know what it entails."

"It fits the criterion of a thing I definitely would not have done without being inherently horrifying," Miranda tells Minor.

"...okay."

And back downstairs.

"Found a test that's something resembling ethically acceptable!" he tells Cam when they get down. "Miranda did move to disable me as soon as she broke it off, which would be a problem if Miranda were a daeva and not especially concerned with my welfare."