- Balkar: [reading from a book of spells] To stop the heat and cool the fever, add the hair of an Iceberg-beaver.
- Leader of the Desert Dwellers: Such strength! You must be the one they call Blackstar.
- John Blackstar: In the flesh.
- Leader of the Desert Dwellers: How may we repay you from saving us from the Overlord's creatures?
- John Blackstar: There is one thing: I'll return the healing stone before six moons have passed.
- John Blackstar: I know your legend, Blackstar, you can be trusted.
- The Emerald Knight: We shall see! I'm the Emerald Knight, servant of the Overlord. I claim the healing stone for him.