Liam traveled through the forest faster than Grandpa did with Julian. But it wasn't fast enough to reach the city in one day. That was still too impossible for Liam.
He didn't care, though. He has liked running since he was small, and pretending to run away from the Avatars was his favorite pastime when he was small. Especially when he didn't even understand that it was impossible to run away from them, it was relaxing for him. Moreover, it freed his mind of useless things, like the argument with the teacher or the useless appearance of Miss June.
He had liked the teacher in Palmo, but was she hiding her true colors? He didn't think so, so that left him with the option that the teacher was really testing him, as Blift had suggested.