With eyes ahead, Reines doesn't have the ability to note that the illusion is being stared at just a little too hard. Her energy is split on sustaining the magic and running like hell. It isn't until the actual crowd thins out that it occurs to her to start to ease off of it slowly - a natural fade rather than a sudden change - and she hopes that it will be enough.

The inappropriate question of are we there yet crosses her mind, and she voices it in a slightly less whiny manner.

"How much further?"