Something something a spate of sudden nervousness and also being the one usually speaking with his hands, animated gestures when he's really excited about something. This? Is fascinating, strange, and holds great potential, but is not entirely exciting. Not yet, anyway. Loki is a bit too wrapped up in anxieties at the moment for excitement.

The future, however, holds any number of possibilities.

Loki frowns as Nate retreats further into the apartment. It is a non-answer. He feels a little cheated, considering how honest he was. He follows the younger man into the kitchen.

"I am not often straight and to the point; only when I feel it will serve me." Which is more often than not, these days, but Nate doesn't need to know the particularities of that, does he? Loki leans against the doorframe, posture collected and posh, somehow, but still with an air of casualness. "Are you asking how the subject of a contract was broached, or how it was negotiated? If it was my idea or his? I think, perhaps, you know the answer to the latter."

If he knows Steve at all.