Mithias seems to be a very caring guy. What if the king demands she be executed (Maybe even perhaps him as well?) and he decides to help her escape? We could tie the ghost in with them by saying maybe he felt himself her guardian and attached himself to a personal item? They could run into the Seer again shortly after their escape.
It may be considerably short though, I'm so tired. It took me three reads over Mithias' post to realize he was talking to the prisoner XD. So, I think we should start plotting :).
I personally like Runaway, but if you'd like to drop it, I'm okay with that. I'm not really sure where it was going anyways. Or where Tugging at threads was either. What was our original plot idea for this?