"That has to be it! There is a connection between the flames and the balance in the rune by breaking this section and carving a water rune here." Ezra had been rambling for some time as Walker and he carved runs.
They had Gil standing prepared to fire whenever they made these runes. The papers used were made from special trees that allowed a better conductivity of most manas. Gil had been sent to run from side to side placing these papers with rune experiments on them.
From these, Gil was in charge of firing arrow after arrow with different patterns carved on them. The goal was to allow the runes to take in his mana as he would let any magical arrow do when he fire it. From there, the rune would react to its copy and teleport from the air where Gil fired it to the target.