Reflexively he caught the apple... which he regarded as a strange otherworldly fruit or maybe a vegetable of some sort, and held onto it.

To him 'bending' appeared to work very much like the magic of Cephiro. If you wish for something to be then will it and it will appear. Obviously this world worked some what differently than his however since his magic was incompatible with theirs.

"Who is the Pillar of this world?"