Shireen looked into both the mens faces. They had always been kind and loving to her, as long as they were alive. Poor Cressen had died because of Melisandre and loyal Davos had fought with them at the Wall, till the end.
Was that danger still lurking in the lands of the eternal Winter?
She shuddered and her hands went to her tummy while she remembered her first death.
In that moment the door opened and her father came inside, followed by her mother. Shireen was taken aback for a moment, she remembered all the years ago when they received the news that her father and his army had fallen into Bolton trappings and had been killed. She remembered her mother losing herself more and more into Melisandre's promises, till she had thrown herself into the flames a year later. Melisandre had left the Wall after that, to search for a new Prince that was promised after Jon Snow had forbidden her to sacrifice Shireen and other children.
Melisandre.
Would she come in this life too?
Shireen decided that she would try her best to save her mother and father from this madness that the Red Priestess brought into her home. From the deaths that were her fault and from the mistrust that she encouraged.
Shireen looked up to her father. He looked different than she remembered him, it was as if he looked pleased. Her mother was standing behind him and she was smiling and crying at the same time. Shireen couldn't remember to have ever before seeing her mother smiling light that.
"Happy nameday, daughter. A new year for you and a new life. "
It was the Year 296 after Aegons Conquest and Shireen Baratheon had seen her mother smiling a real and loving smile for the first time in all her lives.
It was a good nameday gift.