She's not going to make it awkward.

I really do not understand how you have confident predictions about what would happen if an Elf version of your mother were sacrificed to end some distant atrocity and then resurrected and then introduced to a wizard version of her son.

Okay but watch, I'm going to be right and then you have to say 'okay, Timothy, that is in fact a useful trait for rulers of the world to have.'

I will admit in advance that it's a useful trait I just don't understand how you do it!

If I had it granular enough to teach I would teach you, sorry. 

It's okay.

"Got an answer from somebody about the 'drug trial'."

"We have a volunteer?"

"Yeah. You can use the same circle, just swap the name - he doesn't have a preferred transliteration, you'll have to copy the Lagalann -" Piece of paper.

"I might check while I'm at it whether summoning works in Milliways, it'd simplify my interviewing." And he goes up to his room.

And he draws the circle!

This demon appears after a couple minutes. "This about the hypnosis-y drug thing?"

"Yes, hi, Timothy Way. I am doing the drug thing though for informed consent reasons I am going to have to give you a full explanation and the full explanation is much weirder. Are you interested?"

"Sure."

"You know the new world, with the Elves -"

"Huh? Elves? I don't read much."

"Someone got summoned by accident to a different world than the normal one, and it's got Elves - and a bunch of other species - you can check me on all of this, if that'll go faster than explaining - the Elf planet is called Endorë -"

"Is this relevant to the drug thing? You know the point of testing on daeva is we'll be okay after, right, you can kinda just fuck me up."

"Yeah, it's relevant. This world has magic more powerful than parlor tricks. I can do magic. It's not a drug, it's a mind-control spell with the described effects, and we want to check whether it works on daeva in particular, it definitely works on humans."

"Oh. I guess that explains all the hedgy wording."

"Yeah. Uh, among things I can probably do are 'make you make stuff' and 'make you agree to a deal that you wouldn't otherwise agree to' -"

Shrug. "I'm not super fragile. It sounded neat, Cam said he tested it and it was like, fantasy story grade hypnosis, feels like a direct experience of not being responsible for your actions? Go ahead and fuck me up."

...oh, yikes. 

It takes him a few seconds to get his head back in the right place to -

"Okay. Imperio."

Spacey demon.

The demon would like to make a pillow on the bed. (The bindings shouldn't permit this...)

The demon looks vaguely forlornly at the bed. No pillow.