[The Exarch tilts his head, looking down as he lifts his crystalline hand, passing the apple from palm to palm. It is quite a delicious looking apple, and he considers briefly taking a bit of it to taste the sweetness within, but...]

Ah... I do not need to eat - I derive my energy from the selfsame aether that sustains and operates the tower. But that is not to say I can't eat nor that I lack the capacity to taste. It is simply that its nourishment is wasted on me.

[With his crystal hand, he holds the apple out for Aster to take, if he desires.]