- The Chamberlain: How is friend skekTek? Good? Mm?
- [skekTek looks up from his work but doesn't turn around]
- The Chamberlain: Emperor is very displeased that machine is not yet fixed.
- [skekTek grumbles and continues working]
- The Chamberlain: "Eye" urge patience. Explain your loss of eye slows you.
- [skekTek turns to face skekSil, growling. The Scientist has a mechanical right eye]
- The Scientist: My eye is better than ever! I require no further assistance from you, skekSil.
- The Chamberlain: But if it wasn't for me, Emperor would have taken more than eye. "Eye" want your machine to succeed, skekTek. "Eye" want what is best for all Skeksis. You must "see" that, yes?
- The Scientist: I do not have time for your gormless distractions, you slippery-
- [He sees two round-faced figures beside skekSil, cowering]
- The Scientist: Huh? Uh... what are those?
- The Chamberlain: Gruenaks. These are gifts.
- The Scientist: But I thought we had eradicated them.
- The Chamberlain: These are survivors found by Sifan mariners. They are mechanically minded and surprisingly strong.
- The Scientist: You've sewn their mouths shut?
- The Chamberlain: Mmm, perfect for keeping secrets, yes? So we are friends? All is forgiven?
- The Scientist: It's a start.
- [Aughra takes her eye out and dunks it in skekOk's bath water]
- The Scroll-Keeper: No, get that out of there! Get it out!
- Aughra: Pah! So little has changed.
- The Scroll-Keeper: Oh, what are you doing? No! Stop it! Stop it!
- The Chamberlain: I am friend to Gelfling, so tell where Rian is, or other Skeksis will make Gurjin scream like Scientist.
- Deet: No, we are very much alive, and we don't sleep upside-down. And we smell just fine, most of the time.
- Stonewood Guard: You what?
- Crystal Aughra: I see many endings lain before us, diverging paths through an endless forest. Some good, many bad.
- Rian: You are my Maudra, and I've never seen you lose a fight. Dreamfast with me. Learn the truth and together we can stop the Skeksis.
- Ordon: His condition is worse than I feared. I must return him to the Castle of the Crystal at once.
- Rian: N-no, just dreamfast with me and you'll see.
- Maudra Fara: No! The Skeksis have warned us madness spreads this way.