If Loki is looking to keep secrets for himself, then, Nate can as well as far as he's concerned. Besides, what's the fun in telling someone everything you can do? Nate does come from a world where survival is done in a lot of different ways and not being an open book about what you can do is certainly one of them.

That being said, he's a little more curious with what the other submissive is doing with the machine when he's asked what he's asked and he shrugs in reply.

"I don't really drink coffee, but people sure like to always offer it to me, so." Therefore? Coffee seems like a thing to always offer and make for others.