"It better count," Travis replied back to Nemo, sounding almost hesitant and uncertain but committed the to the task at hand.

With a sigh, he withdrew his left hand back and quickly curled his fingers fist, crushing the design of the circle and thus cancelling out his spell. In moments, color and sight soon returned to his right eye though he blinked repeatedly to wear off the negative perception he still retained. If it weren't for its usefulness, Travis would have reconsidered dabbing into the darker arte; the spell itself presented an experience he struggled with appreciating. Quite simply, it made him uneasy tapping into a vision of a mirroring realm that perceives his reality in much different light.

Recomposing himself, Travis prepared his distraction and focused on the mana pooling into his right hand. While his runes were efficient in consuming the minimal of his reserves, they still demanded quite a bit of focus in generating, especially if there was a large number of them. For his next act, he was going to cast as many of his own lightning and backdraft spells from different intervals as he could just long enough to drawn Lori's attention to him. He knew where the summon them but the matter at hand was doing so without being spotted; a risk he didn't fancy making.

"Well, here goes nothing," he said with his head resting against the container, eyes closed before drawing a big breath and shooting off from his position and quickly leaned around the container and began casting.

Travis inserted each of his runes ahead of him, half exposed within the cover he had chosen to establish them in. His gamble was tricking Lori in directing her attention to what looked like a number of intruders attempting to engage her. Given the range and conditions, Travis was almost certain that his ploy wouldn't pose too much of a threat unless he got lucky with one of the spells. 

After inserting his runes, had released a slight pulse of mana out, triggering each of the runes nearest to him to go off. Travis then broke cover and ran forward, causing each new rune to go off until he dove for the nearest container. The runes that were now active, while aimed at Lori, fired off without hardly any concentration back up their efficiently. Bursts of fire would have dispersed before even charging the outpost while streaks of lighting attempting to lash out either fell short or whizzed past harmlessly toward any attracing conductors.